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I hold a graduate degree. I have a certain affection for academia. It's with great sadness that I watch a once-great institution shamble down the path to perdition.

Hopefully we find a way to renew it, or else to do basic science outside of it

It is a politico-religious movement. Of course people that side with that movement find value in funding people to produce texts in its tradition and educate students in its ways of talking. I don't.

In defense of Paul, I'm reminded of work highlighted by the twitter account Real Peer Review (once banned and now reincarnated). It highlights various bits of so-called scholarship that looks like political ideology dressed up in fancy words and financed by taxpayers. "Decolonizing math" and things like that. Some recent examples:

https://twitter.com/RealPeerReview/status/133532437242123879...

https://twitter.com/RealPeerReview/status/132655686041831424...

https://twitter.com/RealPeerReview/status/128234439739327284...

https://twitter.com/RealPeerReview/status/131274252267491738...

(NSFW) https://twitter.com/RealPeerReview/status/128226118909190553...

(NSFW) https://twitter.com/RealPeerReview/status/130979001821976166...

I wouldn't expect taxpayers to finance my church. I'm not sure why I'm on the hook to fund this particular non-falsifiable dogma that I vehemently disagree with.