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Teresa Sullivan fired from UVA: What happens when universities are run by robber barons.
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At some point in recent American history, we started assuming that if people are rich enough, they must be experts in all things. That’s why we trust Mark Zuckerberg to save Newark schools and Bill Gates to rid the world of malaria. Expertise is so 20th century.
Kiernan played a strange and as-yet-unclear role in the ousting of Sullivan over last weekend. Here is the story of how it unfolded and how we came to know of Kiernan’s role in the matter.
Here is a lot of information about this ruckus.
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“That’s why we trust Bill Gates to rid the world of malaria”
Uh, what? Gates wasn’t appointed to cure malaria. Gates has no official role. Who the fuck “trusts” him to cure malaria? Seems like a good place to stop reading right there and not “trust” this author to have a useful point.
(Not meaning to imply anything about the justness of Teresa Sullivan’s firing.)
Ok, so the author proves that he basically can’t see the difference between tell the financial supporter (Bill Gates) and the actual people doing the research (aka. Scientist Not Bill Gates).
And I have to believe he can actually understand more complicated things.