Saturday, January 30, 2016

The intelligentsia is SO screwed up

Two numbers say it all about how screwed up the intelligentsia is. I typed in two names at Google Scholar: C Darwin and M Foucault. Here are the total number of citations:

Total Google Scholar Citations

Charles Darwin  118,346
Michel Foucault  602,427

Need I say more?
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1 comment:

  1. Anonymous12:12 PM

    Philosophy is more general and speculative, so it has a greater potential for citations.

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