<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">fabio vicentini</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fmvicent@gmail.com">fmvicent@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 9:31 AM<br>Subject: The Argentine chapter of the academic show (Second letter)<br>To: "<a href="mailto:presidencia@conicet.gov.ar">presidencia@conicet.gov.ar</a>" <<a href="mailto:presidencia@conicet.gov.ar">presidencia@conicet.gov.ar</a>>, <a href="mailto:FulbrightNEXUS@iie.org">FulbrightNEXUS@iie.org</a>, <a href="mailto:info@fundacionsadosky.org.ar">info@fundacionsadosky.org.ar</a>, <a href="mailto:info@mincyt.gob.ar">info@mincyt.gob.ar</a>, <a href="mailto:prensa@mincyt.gov.ar">prensa@mincyt.gov.ar</a><br>
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<p style="text-align:right"><span lang="EN-US">Buenos Aires, June 14, 2012</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p><span lang="EN-US"> Dear
colleague:</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">Subject:
Academic Bullshitting</span></p><p><span lang="EN-US">I have
worked as an operations researcher for industral concerns for 30 years and I consider
that 5 out of 70 projects I dealt with were worth transmitting to my colleagues,
the rest was routine. That would amount to one paper every six years. On the
other side my colleagues in the Academy publish one paper every 6 months. Either
I am a PhD idiot or my colleagues are publishing rubbish!</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US"> In the
nineties I lost my job in industry and was forced to take refuge in the School
of Sciences of Buenos Aires university wherein I found that professors are
pressured to publish papers. </span></p>
<p><span style lang="EN-US"> Full-time
professors are expected to lecture and do research. Their academic performance
is evaluated mainly by their research, and research is measured by the number
of his papers - mind you, by the number not by the content. It is assumed that
its content has already been judged by the journal's referees. </span></p>
<p><span style lang="EN-US"> Every
seven years professor X is subject to a contest where his number of papers is
counted. If another candidate Z has a number of papers greater than X has then
they would give X's job to Z. Even if X would overcome this ordeal, he will
have to confront again the contest after the next seven years and so forth. There
is no tenure. </span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US"> Now, if X is
successful in finding the solution to his research problem he would publish it in
a journal, but this is not the objective. The objective is to publish papers no
matter what because that is what they count. X realizes that a serious problem
may take very long to be solved... or never. So, in order to survive X should
leave behind certain qualms like honesty. There are ways to maximize the number
of papers: 1) to join a prolific "research group" 2) to choose a
successful coauthor 3) to choose a papers-generating problem 4) to exploit your
thesis students 5) to enlist in the school mafia, but whichever his choice the end
result might probably be a bullshit paper. Hence our academic policy does not
favor the honest researcher. It is not the most intelligent that survives, it
is the one that is the most adaptable to the rules of the game. <span style></span></span></p>
<p><span style lang="EN-US"> Whoever
was first in dreaming up this evaluation procedure got his inspiration from the
monkey theorem: </span><i><span lang="EN-US">If you put a thousand monkeys banging at a
thousand typewriters, one will eventually reproduce a sonnet of Shakespeare
with probability one.</span></i></p>
<p><i><span lang="EN-US"> </span></i><span lang="EN-US">As already mentioned
our academics fabricate two papers per year on the average. I ascertained this
estimate from a sample selected from the math dept faculty. For each professor
in the sample I gathered the following data:</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US"> (1) Professor
name</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">(2) Subject
area </span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">(3) Number
of published papers </span></p>
<p>(4) Period= 2010,5 -<span>
</span>initial year </p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">(5)
Papers/año = (3) / (4)</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:center" align="center"><u>Área</u></p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right"><u>papers</u></p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right"><u>años</u></p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right"><u>papers/año</u></p>
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<p>1</p>
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<p>diff.equat</p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right">154</p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right">15,5</p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right">9,9</p>
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<p>2</p>
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<p>diff.equat</p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right">48</p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right">11,5</p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right">4,2</p>
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<p>3</p>
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<p>diff.equat</p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right">33</p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right">9,5</p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right">3,5</p>
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<p>4</p>
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<p>algeb.geo</p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right">33</p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right">9,5</p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right">3,5</p>
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<p>5</p>
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<p>diff.equat</p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right">32</p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right">11,5</p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right">2,8</p>
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<p>6</p>
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<p>nume.anal</p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right">68</p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right">27,5</p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right">2,5</p>
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<p>7</p>
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<p>diff.equat</p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right">11</p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right">4,5</p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right">2,4</p>
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<p>8</p>
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<p>func.anal</p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right">30</p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right">12,5</p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right">2,4</p>
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<p>9</p>
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<p>algeb.topo</p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right">25</p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right">10,5</p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right">2,4</p>
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<p>10</p>
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<p>harm.anal</p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right">41</p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right">18,5</p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right">2,2</p>
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<p>11</p>
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<p>diff.equat</p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right">21</p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right">9,5</p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right">2,2</p>
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<p>12</p>
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<p>diff.equat</p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right">13</p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right">6,5</p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right">2</p>
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<p>13</p>
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<p>nume.anal</p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right">20</p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right">10,5</p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right">1,9</p>
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<p>14</p>
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<p><a href="http://alg.non.co" target="_blank">alg.non.co</a></p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right">21</p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right">11,5</p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right">1,8</p>
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<p>15</p>
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<p style="text-align:center" align="center">?</p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right">42</p>
</td>
<td style="width:62pt;padding:0cm 3.5pt;min-height:13.2pt" nowrap valign="bottom" width="103">
<p style="text-align:right" align="right">24,5</p>
</td>
<td style="width:62pt;border-width:medium 1pt medium medium;border-style:none solid none none;border-color:-moz-use-text-color windowtext -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color;padding:0cm 3.5pt;min-height:13.2pt" nowrap valign="bottom" width="103">
<p style="text-align:right" align="right">1,7</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="min-height:13.2pt">
<td style="width:62pt;border-width:medium medium medium 1pt;border-style:none none none solid;border-color:-moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color windowtext;padding:0cm 3.5pt;min-height:13.2pt" nowrap valign="bottom" width="103">
<p>16</p>
</td>
<td style="width:62pt;padding:0cm 3.5pt;min-height:13.2pt" nowrap valign="bottom" width="103">
<p>harm.anal</p>
</td>
<td style="width:62pt;padding:0cm 3.5pt;min-height:13.2pt" nowrap valign="bottom" width="103">
<p style="text-align:right" align="right">35</p>
</td>
<td style="width:62pt;padding:0cm 3.5pt;min-height:13.2pt" nowrap valign="bottom" width="103">
<p style="text-align:right" align="right">20,5</p>
</td>
<td style="width:62pt;border-width:medium 1pt medium medium;border-style:none solid none none;border-color:-moz-use-text-color windowtext -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color;padding:0cm 3.5pt;min-height:13.2pt" nowrap valign="bottom" width="103">
<p style="text-align:right" align="right">1,7</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="min-height:13.2pt">
<td style="width:62pt;border-width:medium medium medium 1pt;border-style:none none none solid;border-color:-moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color windowtext;padding:0cm 3.5pt;min-height:13.2pt" nowrap valign="bottom" width="103">
<p>17</p>
</td>
<td style="width:62pt;padding:0cm 3.5pt;min-height:13.2pt" nowrap valign="bottom" width="103">
<p>comp.alge</p>
</td>
<td style="width:62pt;padding:0cm 3.5pt;min-height:13.2pt" nowrap valign="bottom" width="103">
<p style="text-align:right" align="right">16</p>
</td>
<td style="width:62pt;padding:0cm 3.5pt;min-height:13.2pt" nowrap valign="bottom" width="103">
<p style="text-align:right" align="right">10,5</p>
</td>
<td style="width:62pt;border-width:medium 1pt medium medium;border-style:none solid none none;border-color:-moz-use-text-color windowtext -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color;padding:0cm 3.5pt;min-height:13.2pt" nowrap valign="bottom" width="103">
<p style="text-align:right" align="right">1,5</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="min-height:13.2pt">
<td style="width:62pt;border-width:medium medium medium 1pt;border-style:none none none solid;border-color:-moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color windowtext;padding:0cm 3.5pt;min-height:13.2pt" nowrap valign="bottom" width="103">
<p>18</p>
</td>
<td style="width:62pt;padding:0cm 3.5pt;min-height:13.2pt" nowrap valign="bottom" width="103">
<p>func.anal</p>
</td>
<td style="width:62pt;padding:0cm 3.5pt;min-height:13.2pt" nowrap valign="bottom" width="103">
<p style="text-align:right" align="right">16</p>
</td>
<td style="width:62pt;padding:0cm 3.5pt;min-height:13.2pt" nowrap valign="bottom" width="103">
<p style="text-align:right" align="right">12,5</p>
</td>
<td style="width:62pt;border-width:medium 1pt medium medium;border-style:none solid none none;border-color:-moz-use-text-color windowtext -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color;padding:0cm 3.5pt;min-height:13.2pt" nowrap valign="bottom" width="103">
<p style="text-align:right" align="right">1,3</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="min-height:13.2pt">
<td style="width:62pt;border-width:medium medium medium 1pt;border-style:none none none solid;border-color:-moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color windowtext;padding:0cm 3.5pt;min-height:13.2pt" nowrap valign="bottom" width="103">
<p>19</p>
</td>
<td style="width:62pt;padding:0cm 3.5pt;min-height:13.2pt" nowrap valign="bottom" width="103">
<p>hom.algeb</p>
</td>
<td style="width:62pt;padding:0cm 3.5pt;min-height:13.2pt" nowrap valign="bottom" width="103">
<p style="text-align:right" align="right">31</p>
</td>
<td style="width:62pt;padding:0cm 3.5pt;min-height:13.2pt" nowrap valign="bottom" width="103">
<p style="text-align:right" align="right">24,5</p>
</td>
<td style="width:62pt;border-width:medium 1pt medium medium;border-style:none solid none none;border-color:-moz-use-text-color windowtext -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color;padding:0cm 3.5pt;min-height:13.2pt" nowrap valign="bottom" width="103">
<p style="text-align:right" align="right">1,3</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="min-height:13.2pt">
<td style="width:62pt;border-width:medium medium medium 1pt;border-style:none none none solid;border-color:-moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color windowtext;padding:0cm 3.5pt;min-height:13.2pt" nowrap valign="bottom" width="103">
<p>20</p>
</td>
<td style="width:62pt;padding:0cm 3.5pt;min-height:13.2pt" nowrap valign="bottom" width="103">
<p>comp.alge</p>
</td>
<td style="width:62pt;padding:0cm 3.5pt;min-height:13.2pt" nowrap valign="bottom" width="103">
<p style="text-align:right" align="right">25</p>
</td>
<td style="width:62pt;padding:0cm 3.5pt;min-height:13.2pt" nowrap valign="bottom" width="103">
<p style="text-align:right" align="right">20,5</p>
</td>
<td style="width:62pt;border-width:medium 1pt medium medium;border-style:none solid none none;border-color:-moz-use-text-color windowtext -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color;padding:0cm 3.5pt;min-height:13.2pt" nowrap valign="bottom" width="103">
<p style="text-align:right" align="right">1,2</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="min-height:13.2pt">
<td style="width:62pt;border-width:medium medium medium 1pt;border-style:none none none solid;border-color:-moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color windowtext;padding:0cm 3.5pt;min-height:13.2pt" nowrap valign="bottom" width="103">
<p>21</p>
</td>
<td style="width:62pt;padding:0cm 3.5pt;min-height:13.2pt" nowrap valign="bottom" width="103">
<p>hom.algeb</p>
</td>
<td style="width:62pt;padding:0cm 3.5pt;min-height:13.2pt" nowrap valign="bottom" width="103">
<p style="text-align:right" align="right">14</p>
</td>
<td style="width:62pt;padding:0cm 3.5pt;min-height:13.2pt" nowrap valign="bottom" width="103">
<p style="text-align:right" align="right">14,5</p>
</td>
<td style="width:62pt;border-width:medium 1pt medium medium;border-style:none solid none none;border-color:-moz-use-text-color windowtext -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color;padding:0cm 3.5pt;min-height:13.2pt" nowrap valign="bottom" width="103">
<p style="text-align:right" align="right">1</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="min-height:13.2pt">
<td style="width:62pt;border-width:medium medium medium 1pt;border-style:none none none solid;border-color:-moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color windowtext;padding:0cm 3.5pt;min-height:13.2pt" nowrap valign="bottom" width="103">
<p>22</p>
</td>
<td style="width:62pt;padding:0cm 3.5pt;min-height:13.2pt" nowrap valign="bottom" width="103">
<p>comp.alge</p>
</td>
<td style="width:62pt;padding:0cm 3.5pt;min-height:13.2pt" nowrap valign="bottom" width="103">
<p style="text-align:right" align="right">5</p>
</td>
<td style="width:62pt;padding:0cm 3.5pt;min-height:13.2pt" nowrap valign="bottom" width="103">
<p style="text-align:right" align="right">5,5</p>
</td>
<td style="width:62pt;border-width:medium 1pt medium medium;border-style:none solid none none;border-color:-moz-use-text-color windowtext -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color;padding:0cm 3.5pt;min-height:13.2pt" nowrap valign="bottom" width="103">
<p style="text-align:right" align="right">0,9</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="min-height:13.2pt">
<td style="width:62pt;border-width:medium medium medium 1pt;border-style:none none none solid;border-color:-moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color windowtext;padding:0cm 3.5pt;min-height:13.2pt" nowrap valign="bottom" width="103">
<p>23</p>
</td>
<td style="width:62pt;padding:0cm 3.5pt;min-height:13.2pt" nowrap valign="bottom" width="103">
<p>nume.anal</p>
</td>
<td style="width:62pt;padding:0cm 3.5pt;min-height:13.2pt" nowrap valign="bottom" width="103">
<p style="text-align:right" align="right">15</p>
</td>
<td style="width:62pt;padding:0cm 3.5pt;min-height:13.2pt" nowrap valign="bottom" width="103">
<p style="text-align:right" align="right">18,5</p>
</td>
<td style="width:62pt;border-width:medium 1pt medium medium;border-style:none solid none none;border-color:-moz-use-text-color windowtext -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color;padding:0cm 3.5pt;min-height:13.2pt" nowrap valign="bottom" width="103">
<p style="text-align:right" align="right">0,8</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="min-height:13.2pt">
<td style="width:62pt;border-width:medium medium medium 1pt;border-style:none none none solid;border-color:-moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color windowtext;padding:0cm 3.5pt;min-height:13.2pt" nowrap valign="bottom" width="103">
<p>24</p>
</td>
<td style="width:62pt;padding:0cm 3.5pt;min-height:13.2pt" nowrap valign="bottom" width="103">
<p>alge.geom</p>
</td>
<td style="width:62pt;padding:0cm 3.5pt;min-height:13.2pt" nowrap valign="bottom" width="103">
<p style="text-align:right" align="right">17</p>
</td>
<td style="width:62pt;padding:0cm 3.5pt;min-height:13.2pt" nowrap valign="bottom" width="103">
<p style="text-align:right" align="right">27,5</p>
</td>
<td style="width:62pt;border-width:medium 1pt medium medium;border-style:none solid none none;border-color:-moz-use-text-color windowtext -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color;padding:0cm 3.5pt;min-height:13.2pt" nowrap valign="bottom" width="103">
<p style="text-align:right" align="right">0,6</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="min-height:13.8pt">
<td style="width:62pt;border-width:medium medium 1pt 1pt;border-style:none none solid solid;border-color:-moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color windowtext windowtext;padding:0cm 3.5pt;min-height:13.8pt" nowrap valign="bottom" width="103">
<p> </p>
</td>
<td style="width:62pt;border-width:medium medium 1pt;border-style:none none solid;border-color:-moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color windowtext;padding:0cm 3.5pt;min-height:13.8pt" nowrap valign="bottom" width="103">
<p> </p>
</td>
<td style="width:62pt;border-width:medium medium 1pt;border-style:none none solid;border-color:-moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color windowtext;padding:0cm 3.5pt;min-height:13.8pt" nowrap valign="bottom" width="103">
<p> </p>
</td>
<td style="width:62pt;border-width:medium medium 1pt;border-style:none none solid;border-color:-moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color windowtext;padding:0cm 3.5pt;min-height:13.8pt" nowrap valign="bottom" width="103">
<p> </p>
</td>
<td style="width:62pt;border-width:medium 1pt 1pt medium;border-style:none solid solid none;border-color:-moz-use-text-color windowtext windowtext -moz-use-text-color;padding:0cm 3.5pt;min-height:13.8pt" nowrap valign="bottom" width="103">
<p style="text-align:right" align="right">2.1</p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p><span lang="EN-US"> The last
column's average is 2.1 (outlayer 9.9 is excluded )</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US"> All these
people are smart but none is a genius. A normal human being cannot discover a
significant new fact of science twice a year. But the “publish or perish”
command exerts on him the feeling of being in danger of losing his job if the
paper is not forthcoming. As a consequence he may fake research to produce
papers. </span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US"> While
working in industrial concerns I wrote progress reports to my supervisors about
the project I was engaged in, but there was no paper-making for journals in the
production milieu. The impression I derived from the Academy is that they are not
doing science but a "show of science". The theory advanced in papers
has a merit if it eventually finds its way to benefit society, otherwise
bullshit is financed by We the People. </span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US"> Fabio Vicentini, PhD<br></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p> </p>
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</div><br></div>