[HN Gopher] Oil and gas money shapes research, creates 'echo cha...
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Oil and gas money shapes research, creates 'echo chamber' in higher
education
Author : rntn
Score : 16 points
Date : 2025-03-29 19:29 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| lihaciudaniel wrote:
| Oil is a deep rabithole trust me don't go down its path
|
| Academia is a place for intellectual labour, and being sustained
| by the physical labour of the workers to extract oil is good.
| Exchange intelligence for the physical labour of the people who
| made that oil possible
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| EDIT: consider the innovation that innovated oil refinement, it
| came from academia!
| grej wrote:
| Petroleum - oil and gas - changed the world for the better. Not
| without creating other issues, but the dramatic increase in crop
| yields and overall standards of living, and dramatic decrease in
| famine are irrefutable. As we enter the AI era, worth taking that
| lesson that even the most beneficial of technologies can and do
| create unintended side effects.
| thimkerbell wrote:
| Seems it was quite impactful at U.C. Berkeley.
| usui wrote:
| Do you mean to say funding impacted chemistry/chemical
| engineering at UC Berkeley a lot? Berkeley's chemistry majors
| have always been top in the nation, and there is a "College of
| Chemistry", separate from the other science (and even
| engineering) majors which makes it stand out from the rest of
| the country. So maybe the funding goes there just because it's
| already a historically distinguished place for chemistry.
| throwaway_5633 wrote:
| I remember a physics department that was funded by BP, on the
| provision they'd stop their research into solar technology.
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