Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Oh
Reading this, I can't help but think that Laura Nader, as an anthropology professor, simply finds the idea that engineers and scientists want to solve actual problems that people might have to be somehow foreign.
"Does the money come with strings attached that hinder academic freedom of research and teaching?" asked Laura Nader, a professor of anthropology, who said the deal may allow the patron company to dictate the type of research to be conducted.
"He who pays the piper calls the tune," Nader said. That's what sciency types do. We solve problems. We aren't philosopher-scientists who don't want our work interefered with by the real world. We need people to come in and dictate the type of research to be conducted. I think it says something very sad about the field of anthropology that such a concept seems so strange and wrong to Nader.
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