As opposed to shilling for Trump? Or are you too young to understand the concept of difficult choices and their consequences.

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Boston Children’s Hospital in collaboration with Harvard Medical school pays residents about the same. It’s pitiful and we desperately need regulation on salaries at educational institutions.

Your evidence is people who lived a century or two ago?

According to a 1998 study, 92% of members of the National Academy of Sciences reject the belief in a higher power or God. Now decades later, that number is closer to 100%. And a soul is a philosophical concept, not an empirical one.

I accept the existence of religion by virtue of the fact that humans are half a chromosome away from chimpanzees. I’m not happy about it, though.

Stem cell research has never ever been controversial among scientists. Priests, maybe.

I knew an athlete a few years ago who was told by Stanford that she had to get a 23 on the ACT to be accepted. Her GPA was mediocre. I don’t even remember if she had AP classes. To be clear, this person was barely literate. She was a nice person, but to put things in perspective, a 23 means getting almost half the questions wrong (in a multiple choice test where 1/4 of random answers are automatically correct). It means, again, illiterate.

She struggled for a whole year to get to 23 and was accepted to Stanford where she played sports. The one interesting part is that the only major they’d let her have is a business degree, since it requires so little effort.

“Duke says embryos aren’t children, which anyone with eyes can see, and that’s why they’re a great university.”

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To be fair, Duke is a Catholic university and everyone knows Jesus loves money. Only rich men can enter the kingdom of heaven, right? You can’t expect them not to charge students $70k/year while paying overworked adjunct professors $60k/year to teach 5 classes per semester. How else will the hyper-religious underworked administrators go to heaven?

EDIT: in all seriousness, Duke pays poverty wages to their adjunct professors. I know an MD PhD who gets paid $15/hr to work 70 hour weeks at Duke. Her CV is a mile long. She says that all of the University hospitals are like that. They exploit and destroy new talent, young doctors, and aspiring researchers. And then everyone whines about how there aren’t enough doctors. It’s easy to fix. Cap the salaries of all administrators 1:1 with the average adjunct professor’s salary.

Now I know, “economists” will say that this will create an artificial shortage of administrators, but I think they’re forgetting that administration takes only slightly more skill than watching paint dry, so we might be alright.

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That’s like saying “they have commitments to a cult, but they’re good at science.” I don’t think non-secular institutions should have accreditation. Period.

Whose idea was it to give one of the shittiest universities such a big responsibility? Duke is basically a giant sports program with a religious school attached. What do they care about science?