Sabine Hossenfelder shares an email from a prestigious academic that she received 7 years ago. The academic didn’t want the email shared and in it openly admits academia is broken and that a lot of the work (including some of his or her own) is crap, but nevertheless s/he’s asking Hossenfelder to stop causing trouble. Here’s a pic with part of the shared email from 3:33:
I liked the whole video. This part about academia being full of obedient idiots particularly struck me as related to this forum topic. To answer part of @ActiveMind’s question, the better thinkers are being kicked out of academia or leaving it.
The stuff in the video about manipulating tax payers to get funding for science also reminds me of the Atlas Shrugged plot line involving Dr. Stadler.