State Politics (American Politics) Research Papers (original) (raw)

Australia's ageing professors might be sans frontiers (without borders), in terms of the infinite subjects over which they range and on which they claim expertise, and the disparate forms of media they now embrace. But they are also, seemingly, without arguments and without intellectual rigour and honesty. Their meagre intellectual efforts in so many areas-say, climate alarmism-are, alas, increasingly well known among the taxpaying public. That their squalid endeavours of the mind attract not only taxpayer funds but now global private sector backing should worry us all, given their increasingly compromised, indeed, clueless, and in many cases, dangerous, output. Once respectable research institutes are now in the pay of Big Pharma. https://politicom.com.au/virus-delivers-riches-to-the-compliant-few/ But it isn't only the medical sciences, with direct, pay-day largesse from the pharmaceutical industrial complex, who are getting in on the act of cheering on the vaccines, the vaccine mandates and the multifarious, new forms of discrimination they bring. Now the social sciences and the humanities are in danger of losing what little credibility they still possess. Recently I had cause to critique the output of one academic who should know better. He is, or was, from the right-of-centre of Australian scholarship. Greg Melleuish of the University of Wollongong opined that the still-unvaccinated were an example of what economists call the "free rider" problem. The unvaxxed, in other words, were receiving a "benefit" from the State and (supposedly) not paying for it. https://politicom.com.au/vitriol-humiliation-replace-mateship/ Now there is another, decidedly not from the right-of-centre. His name is David Hayward, of RMIT University. When I worked there, two of my then colleagues, Sinclair Davidson and Steven Kates, and I used to joke that we were the only known right-wingers in the entire University, which counted around six thousand academic staff.