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Bad ScienceBut of particular interest to us is the way the report specifically singled out the slapdash approach of the university towards validating external foundation degrees (p.12, para 45 onwards). It states outright that in the view of the auditing team, the expectations of the code of practice for the assurance of academic quality and standards in higher education, specifically with regard to accrediting foundation degrees, were simply not met. As they go БЂ“ and I try not to read this kind of document too often БЂ“ this report is pretty full-on. If you look it up online, I particularly recommend paragraphs 45 to 52. At the very moment that this book was going to press, it transpired that Professor Holford has resigned from his post as visiting professor, citing reorganisation in the university. I have time to add just one sentence, and it is this: It will not stop. He is now looking for academic credibility elsewhere. The reality is that this vast industry of nutritionism БЂ“ and more importantly than anything, this fascinating brand of scholarship БЂ“ is now penetrating, uncriticised, unnoticed, to the heart of our academic system, because of our desperation to find easy answers to big problems like obesity, our collective need for quick fixes, the willingness of universities to work with industry figures across the board, the admirable desire to give students what they want, and the phenomenal mainstream credibility that these pseudo-academic figures have attained, in a world that has apparently forgotten the importance of critically appraising all scientific claims ...» |
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