Untouchable Science

ITT, techniques that scientists use as barriers to entry to keep the common man from understanding and/or evaluating their claims.

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>>42
You get it.  It weeds out people who shouldn't be holding other people's lives in their hands.  Even if they're only doing it via rote memorization.

Oh, and PROTIP:  rote memorization and parroting back what the professor says will get you by in a bullshit class in a bullshit field like English Lit or sociology or art history or political science or Womyn's Studies (I use the term "bullshit" to describe any field where everything and its opposite are true and there are no objective standards) but you can't solve calc problems without doing some logical manipulation of abstract symbols.  If it's possible to pass a calc course without learning the material, the prof needs to redesign the curriculum.