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That's of course deplorable. But it just feels to me that if it happens so regularly, there must be some systemic causes and not just instances of invidual educators being bribed



what other reason can there be for very, very bad authors have new editions of books come out every year and get enforced on students by tenured clowns?


Well, instead of individual educators the blame could be on faculties or whole universities who maybe strike deals with publishers.




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