Not exact matches
Then my
academic advisor told me that if I really
liked philosophy, I could go to graduate school and eventually make a living writing and teaching it.
The
academic system makes you so dependent on it that you get used to being treated poorly by people,
like your
advisor, committee members, and even other postdocs and graduate students.
It's easy to feel
like working extra hard will impress your
academic advisor or PI, who will then help you move your career forward.It's also easy to stick to the same old routine of chasing publications and playing politics.
Unfortunately, the scientific
advisors (
academics working for the BBC in a consultant capacity) who had helped the TV team never had cause to think
like this before, but it was vital that the site had scientific credibility.
The first line sounds more
like a letter to Penthouse than a scientific paper (you know, the classic «I never thought something
like this would happen to me, but last Saturday night...) What caused me to delete the email (fortunately it was still in the trash so I could go back and find these quotes) was the line «findings in this paper could nt be more damaging to manmade global warming theory or the the thousands of climate scientists...» No
academic in his right mind would state his / her conclusions in this manner, and even if they did, not editor or
advisor would let it slip by.