You wield a double edged sword MK
Michael Kenward wrote:
> How right you are. Academics almost pride themselves in being permanently
> out of it. I spend much of my life ringing universities trying to talk to
> researchers about their work. Tracking them down is usually a nightmare. No
> one knows who is where. They have no answering machines. They do not answer
> e-mail messages.
Many are just scared witless by the media, they are human too, and have
rational and irrational fears about how the media behaves...take a fresh
look in your own (as a profession) backyard. Lift the lid on the
dustbin of media life and lo, Frankenstein foods are there rotting in
the bottom. Why do you think that scientists and engineers don't like
talking to the media?
> In general they behave as if the rest of the world doesn't exist. This sends out appalling signals to the "real" world.
No, most do not. We are all part of the real world. It would appear
that you too have fallen into the same trap, by assuming that academics
don't have children, or go to Tesco etc...
> Okay, the government has chewed away at the money for such things as
> telephone operators and secretaries. But most of us have bought our > own answering machines and learned how to type.
It is not a total waste of time and taxpayers money to use some of the
best thinkers to come out of the education system to do jobs for 3 days
a week that a 16 year old could do?? (ie shuffling paper from one place
to another)
> What makes Professor Braindead so different?
*I* know that this is just your 'robust way', but others may not. Having
said that, I still find that term insulting.
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Department of Chemical Engineering,
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University of Bath,
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