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<blockquote data-quote="curiousbrain" data-source="post: 822474" data-attributes="member: 31608"><p>This is part of what TearsInRain and myself touched on the other day.</p><p></p><p>I would argue that the reality of today (i.e. anyone can publish information, the wide availability of said information, etc) is that facts are, indeed, not facts.</p><p></p><p>One need look no further than when someone says "Reagan raised the debt level" - there are people who would argue that point. Another example might be that Bill Clinton was the one who helped the economy - others would say that it was him riding the Reagan policies in their twilight years. Yet another example is Bush's tax cuts - did they help or hurt the economy?</p><p></p><p>Regardless of ones position on these specific issues, I would argue that one of the problems any informed voter faces today is how to differentiate between different "fact sets" (not in the academic sense, either).</p><p></p><p>As to the tenure issue, I can speak from past and present/current experience that when certain professors achieve tenure, they have much more freedom to shape their curriculum; before tenure, they are a slave to what the government/state/whatever dictates to them. So, initially at least, tenure was a way to prevent what many of us so despise these days - the state dictating what should and should not be learned.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="curiousbrain, post: 822474, member: 31608"] This is part of what TearsInRain and myself touched on the other day. I would argue that the reality of today (i.e. anyone can publish information, the wide availability of said information, etc) is that facts are, indeed, not facts. One need look no further than when someone says "Reagan raised the debt level" - there are people who would argue that point. Another example might be that Bill Clinton was the one who helped the economy - others would say that it was him riding the Reagan policies in their twilight years. Yet another example is Bush's tax cuts - did they help or hurt the economy? Regardless of ones position on these specific issues, I would argue that one of the problems any informed voter faces today is how to differentiate between different "fact sets" (not in the academic sense, either). As to the tenure issue, I can speak from past and present/current experience that when certain professors achieve tenure, they have much more freedom to shape their curriculum; before tenure, they are a slave to what the government/state/whatever dictates to them. So, initially at least, tenure was a way to prevent what many of us so despise these days - the state dictating what should and should not be learned. [/QUOTE]
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