In Preparation is a fairly new Substack publication performing a task that has been missing for a LONG time. It treats science as entertainment, parodying the bizarre excesses of Publish Or Perish and other old and new trends.
The writer is extremely careful to label it as satire, which is crucially necessary in the online environment where trolls say intentionally outrageous shit to stir up countershit for “engagement” or arrest.
Science was SUPPOSED to be entertainment. Tenure and competitive grants turned it into just another grim pointless exhibition of microscopic microdifferences among superstars, like Olympic gymnastics or spelling bees or professional Scrabble for fucks sake.
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