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		peteradio on March 25, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The secret joke at the heart of the Harvard affirm... Probably because they weren't blasting out a paper every 2 weeks and could invest much more time on frankly more fertile ground.

blululu on March 25, 2023 [–]

That would make sense. There are probably a lot of reasons for this trend. The OP's point about fixating on US News ranking seems related to your suggestion. Whatever the cause may be it seems clear to me that a lot of our best scientific minds are increasingly excluded and marginalized by the modern academy.

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