How Greed Ruins Academia

Masadi zindabad........

Masadi for PM!!

Hamid Gul for Khalifa!!

laddu:
Down with Science.
Long live ranting.

Sometime, I feel the problems in Pakistan acdemia ( science Dept)is highly exaggerated. It can't be that bad. Remember Pakistan has exploded nuclear bombs, designed and produced long range rockets and believed to be ahead of India in military science and military is well trained and led according to military analysts.

So why someone cry," the sky is falling" ? This can only be somesort of personal agends.

Remember one can make very pursuasive arguments, but still one ( P. Hoodbhoy) could be totally wrong.
Kamath

Masadi Zindabad!!

Down with psuedo-scientists like Hoodbhoy!!

Sociology of Science zindabad!!

Down with Karl Popper!!!

Islamic Scientific methodology Zindabad!!

Ummahic Scientific Program Zindabad!!

Charlie, as I mentioned before, Pakistan needs fewer scientists like Professor Hoodbhoy, and more internationally acclaimed highly published Sociologists like Professor Masadi. And, yes, I know two scientists including Pervez (the author of this piece).

what a truly sad state of affairs.

I recently went to Karachi University and met some professors. When I asked one professor about his area of specialty, he just looked at me for a few moments and said, "I dont have any area so to speak, i teach whatever that is assigned to me."

That one sentence perhaps best describes what is ailing our public universities.

Kulli,

How may Pakistani scientists have you met? I know at least 10 Pakistani scientists doing very well in top research labs.

It is a shame that current QAU university students are unable to get good GRE score. I remember, when I left my univeristy (UET) in 2002, most of my friends scored 2000+ in GRE which was considered reasonably well. Well, may be, good students join engineering and medicine while rest of them study physics and mathematics at QAU.

Lastly, I have one friend (he happens to be gold medalist from QAU.) He is doing his PhD in robotics from Paris. A few days back, his research work was being appreciated on a french television where they were mentioning a new breakthrough in remote controlled robots for a medical surgery. While he was presenting his work, they were telling that he was a student from Pakistan. I really felt proud for the guy.

What a sad state of affairs. With sitting LHC judge
hobnobbing with under world dons to uni profs turning
QAU doctoral program into a cottage industry, Pakistan
is a mess. Where are the protests? Where are the talk
shows grilling these professors?

Thank you Professor Hoodbhoy, for exposing the ills that our institutions suffer from. It is not surprising because a Pakistani trained scientist at best gets a job driving a cab in the west, and at worst ends up in Dubai as menial labor. Pakistan should stop science education altogether, and produce more Sociologists like Professor Masadi to save our country.

Re: # 1
Masadi - you are the true voice that we all need in Pakistan.
Down with these sham Professors.
Up with the REAL Professors.

:)

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