Our academic system is descended from Akademos, a grove near Athens sacred to the goddess of wisdom. Membership was by invitation only and members claimed ownership of all knowledge, by which they meant stuff they made up by their own powers of reason. Experimental knowledge was left to servants and tradesmen.
PhDs are priests in a pagan religion.
The complete stagnation of astronomy
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