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by marcosdumay 87 days ago
It's better if nobody does it than to send it to the randomizer.
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Ok but you need peer reviewed publications to graduate with a PhD.

And if you retort that the whole academic system is obsolete, well, it still carries a lot of prestige and legitimacy that makes politicians interested in maintaining it, so it's not going anywhere soon.