Post #776749 by tikiskip on Wed, Jun 7, 2017 5:41 AM

What people may or may not know is cultural appropriation and even “science” is some times a business.
You do a study on say Coconut oil for the people who make vegetable oil and lo and behold they find Coconut oil is bad for you and movie theaters stop using Coconut oil so veg oil sales go up.
Years later Coconut oil is found not to be bad for you.

Same with cultural appropriation a group is formed they have demands to make it all better, many times these demands are in the form of money, jobs, new cultural centers at some College or big company.
Money makes all boo boos better.
I learned this while working at one of these Colleges for many years.

Good news does not sell, but you can get funding, sell books ect all day long about how the sky is falling.

The Government, big companies and other nations pay College departments to do these studies, it is BIG money and you don’t want to rock the boat and tell these people who are paying you news they don’t like. Any fact can be tweaked, set aside or ignored altogether to lean your way, or even lie like they did with coconut oil.

If a professor gets lots of grants or money for studies colleges WANT them, they will fight to get him or her and pay them lots more.
If you don’t do well in the funding part as a professor it can be harder for you to get a job or good pay.

Remember the 70s?
The gas shortages, the ecology flag, the best one was the trapper keeper with death on a bull dozer mowing down all kinds of bunnies and deer or the Indian guy with the tear in his eye.
Weell by the year 2000 we were all going to be dead and living in the dark with rampant pollution no gas, power or cars.
The lights are still on, but somebody made a ton on that ecology flag.

They will never stop until the money in the sky is falling business goes away.
And that may never happen.