As someone who has been a professor for nearly 27 years, I cannot stress the extraordinary variance in terms of the quality of research that is produced in academia. Some "research" would receive a FAIL in my undergraduate class. Quality control is sorely lacking in academia.
A lot of the BS (as I explain in The Parasitic Mind) stems from the position that the scientific method (with its pesky data) is only one way of understanding the world. Hence, you can generate an auto-ethnography of your thoughts whilst looking at the mirror and voila PhD! Or
you could have a chat with a few people and report passages from these, and voila doctor! No hypothesis testing. No data analyses. No inferential statistics. No nothing. This anti-science nihilism is something that I was first exposed to as a graduate student. It has only
gotten worse. In ALL of my courses (undergraduate, MBA, MSc, PhD), I require students to conduct research projects that teaches them how to think like a scientist. How to tackle business-related problems via the liberating epistemology of the scientific method. There is
no other way of knowing. You can use different methodologies but you must ALWAYS adhere to the fundamental tenets of the scientific method. I cannot express to you my anger at the endless diminishing of scientific thinking to "my truth," & "my way bruh." Read The Parasitic Mind.
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