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There's a public university close to where I live. They spend an insane amount of money sending out flyers in mail about what they're doing, all kinds of puff pieces about how great they are.
I wonder about the finances of all this. It sure feels like something is off.
I just got an expensively produced magazine from the university yesterday, with all kinds of pieces about the different types of research that the university is involved in. Some of it had to do with nutrition, very advanced high tech stuff, supposedly.
But I was thinking to myself...if the government (and also lots of universities) didn't promote the crappy food that they're promoting, we wouldn't have 80% of the health issues that we have now.
I wonder about the finances of all this. It sure feels like something is off.
Do they have a big athletics program? A lot of the money for this stuff comes from athletics, in the U.S. at least. I don't like it, but people like sportsball... that's just how it is.
But I was thinking to myself...if the government (and also lots of universities) didn't promote the crappy food that they're promoting, we wouldn't have 80% of the health issues that we have now.
Yep that's why biological sciences (which includes nutrition) are fields that I'm more hesitant about. I forgot to mention psychology & behavioral sciences, which would include Education. That's also in the maybe category.
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