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Actually it’s possible for people to have opinions on matters where they are not a published author or academic.

Also “little mice noisily speculating about the state of the world” is a pretty good summary of a lot of academia.

Yeah we should burn the universities down

No but they could certainly use a little bit less "theory" and a little bit more "real world".

Tell that to the people who invented laser or who developed the theory of evolution or who refined economics with behavior or who put experimental evidence in front of theory in psychology or who insist on using data to uphold sociological theories.

I have no idea what you could possibly mean by this.

Do you want trade schools? Those exist.

"Too much theory" was the exact reason we studied RNA vaccines and have a fast, working covid vaccine.

I suppose math departments, being 100% theory, ought to go too

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