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Current Events » in reply to re: Your standards of what is defined as "ruining a career" are a bit stiff.

It's hard to believe you work at a university.
TB — (archived)

You have to know how things are done.

Nobody "ruins" an academic, at least by the definition you seem to be stuck on.

The victim just finds doors a bit harder to open, tenure a bit harder to get in the first place, and grants not easy to come by any more. Peer review for publication starts to become more of an upstream swim instead of a downstream one. The "right" journals tighten up on you, and your own work doesn't seem to be cited as much as it used to be.

You don't get "ruined." You just stop moving forward.

There's a reason academics tend to have the same worldviews. Nobody does "good old boy" like they do.

Now, here's where you tell me that having the United Nation's climate chairman tell the press that Henrik Svensmark's work was "naive and irresponsible" would have absolutely no effect on his career, particularly when the United Nations seems to be the environmental gatekeeper nowadays.

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