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I save all the articles I read on my computer as a PDF, just Mouse right click in the Google browser > Print > Save as PDF. If, as with other sites, there is a lot of advertising, the desired text must be marked first

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This comment is only about "academics" (I haven't read the rest yet):

"Academic research" is indeed ideological even in "hard sciences" (note: no such things exist, because even they are using tentative paradigms to interpret open systems in closed systems, and there are never two completely identical situations even for experiments). For more: https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/freaks-of-science).

During my 23 years of academic teaching, I witnessed grade inflation, too. By about 2001, it was clear that if I had failed all the students who didn't do the job, there would have been about three out of ten students left, whose tuition (mostly student loans, apparently "guaranteed" by the taxpayer these days) would pay my salary, so I would be soon out of a job (obviously I was not at MIT or Harvard). My failing rates were still around 40 percent, despite using a system in which every student was allowed to develop their own projects, and were not tested for anything that I was not teaching, while I limited my materials to the easily doable. I usually handed out Incompletes, and my students had another semester to complete their work, but out of thousands, I believe, only two or three ever earned a passing grade (Incompletes automatically turn into Fs after a semester). The good news is that no student ever complained.

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