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by Nasrudith 2137 days ago
Looks like STEMvy acting up again - trouble with jobs in sector again? My mind may be frayed cynical but this bears resemblence to the same old bullshit of previous decades of academics politics; trying to bully their way onto the gravytrain while calling it "interdisciplinary" but only adding one STEM course at best while treating them as the well of all evils in the world, something they should certainly know better than given evil long predates the accused. The "Science wars" for one. I guess it is time for shitty remakes again there too.

Seriously, there is the same pattern of vague claims to benefits, one-sided elective requirements while poisoning the well to call anyone who disagrees with them close-minded and evil. Sadly/fortunately interdisciplinary never explicitly teaches this sort of bullshitting. Sadly because it could be useful in these fights, fortunately because we are all better off with a minimium of this crap wasting our lives.