Wednesday, January 17, 2007

The back page landscape

Admin1: The Big Media controls Alphysics.

Doctor Gravytee: From a business point of view Alphysics Doctors are free content providers for the Big Media. We get pitiful academic salaries and let the Big Media use what we produce in outrageously priced peer reviewed journals, and textbooks.

A1: And in bestsellers.

Dr. G: There is an immense imbalance of distribution of wealth in Alphysics. Big Media selects one star to be the face of Alphysics and the star gets an unfair share of the scholastic wealth produced by rank and file who gets nothing.

A1: The content of science is defined by the Big Media.

Dr. G: The entire scientific agenda is defined by the Big Media. By creating artificial rivalries among Alphysics Doctors the Big Media keeps science divided. Rivalries sells more books.

A1: Science is not sports.

Dr. G: Looking at String theory wars we see that the Big Media reduced Alphysics down to the level of sports.

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