Description
Governments the world over fund universities to teach and conduct research. Are universities working for the benefit of the population at large or rather for vested interests that may not put people first? This provocative and at times shocking book reveals that universities are often concealing information and bullying and expelling academics whose thinking and research threaten to expose vested interests. Instead, research is encouraged that supports the interests of powerful groups such as the World Economic Forum and Big Pharma even when these run counter to the interests of the population as a whole.
The author, the Secret Professor, dares to look behind the scenes and reveal the extent to which truth is a casualty in academic publications concerning climate change, history (as it concerns the Dead Sea Scroll site of Qumran as well as the factors behind the Great Fire of London) and the power of homeopathy. The author exposes the principal tools of control as consisting of Peer Review; the pressure on academics to publish in often narrow, so-called ‘top’ journals; authoritarian management; government and corporate funding of teaching and/or research; the marginalisation of female academics and the steady erosion of academic freedoms.
The author, The Secret Professor, worked as a successful academic, publishing over eighty peer reviewed journal papers and seven books. Prepare for disturbing revelations about the complicity of multiple agencies and realise that it is time for us to follow the example of the French Impressionist painters who put the old system behind them. Creating inspiring new institutions that follow the evidence rather than vested interests will have a transformative impact on our world.
