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A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-battering System That Shapes Their Lives

A book by Jeff Schmidt about the social agenda of the process of professional training, and how it is used to promote orthodoxy by detecting and weeding out candidates with the most critical view and by exerting pressure on the rest to obey their instructors and abandon a social agenda or efforts to reform injustices. So that they, in turn, can squeeze the life out of the next generation. Shortly after writing this book, Jeff Schmidt was fired from his position as Editor of the academic journal, Physics Today. After many years of legal battling, he was judged to have been dismissed without good cause, awarded a considerable sum of damages and reappointed, whereupon he swiftly resigned.

Read by Lyn from episodes 175-201

Listen By Chapter

1. Timid Professionals 175, 176
2. Ideological Discipline 177, 178
3. Insiders, Guests and Crashers 179
4. Assignable Curiosity 180
5. (Unsuitable for reading out due to multiplicity of formulae)
6. The Division of Labor 181
7. Opportunity 182, 183, 184
8. Narrowing the Political Spectrum 185, 186
9. The Primacy of Attitude 187
10. Examining the Examination 188, 189
11. Gratuitous Bias 190
12. "Neutral" Voices 192
13. Subordination 193
14. Resisting Indoctrination 194, 195, 196
15. How to Survive Professional Training with Your Values Intact 197, 198
16. Now or Never 200, 201

See Also

• Complete audiobook as a single MP3, 13 hours 8 minutes, 360MB
• ZIPed chapters plus playlist, 316MB
• http://www.DisciplinedMinds.com, Official website, with details of the court judgement