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Knowledge-based society, my ass

I've studied the effects of electromagnetic fields on patients with carotid stent implants during my PhD. I've never talked with any patient nor seen any such medical devices even to this day, fifteen years later.

One of my colleagues who is pursuing his PhD in the same Department under a different professor and a similar area of research, with whom I only cross paths when our blood pressure runs too high, happens to also work for a public institution. But the Head again masterfully defends his position insisting on the necessity of assigning the minimum required number of hours per semester to each member of our Department, per the University guidelines. I point out that the University charges €1000 per student for the final show, that each member of the commission is actually getting paid for their trouble and that all these expenses plus transport and accommodation are already sponsored by our project.

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