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http://www.npr.org/…/a-glut-of-ph-d-s-means-long-odds-of-ge… A Glut Of Ph.D.s Means Long Odds Of Getting Jobs Only one in five Ph.D.s in science, engineering and health end up with faculty teaching or research positions within five years of completing their degrees. But universities keep churning them out. npr.org Like · · Share William C. Haynes likes this. Joseph Andrew http://media.npr.org/.../phd071114s_custom... February 28 at 12:13am · Like · Remove Preview Joseph Andrew Jeremy Abramowitz February 28 at 12:14am · Like Jeremy Abramowitz This is an interesting observation but I think misses the point somewhat. The point of this article is that the supply of labor in the academic job market has increased and driven down the price of labor, but the only people competing in that market in...See More February 28 at 12:16pm · Like William C. Haynes I have read before that 90% of PhDs are not employed in academia. February 28 at 1:54pm · Unlike · 1 William C. Haynes I don't know if that is true. February 28 at 1:54pm · Like William C. Haynes Science has proved that 76% of all statistics are made up. February 28 at 1:54pm · Edited · Like · 1 Joseph Andrew 76 percent of science is science February 28 at 3:56pm · Like Anthony Budny 76 percent of made up science is false February 28 at 6:06pm · Unlike · 1 William C. Haynes If you had a powerful enough microscope you could study the entire multiverse with it because of science. February 28 at 6:18pm · Unlike · 1 Anthony Budny But can you find if we live in a world? February 28 at 7:19pm · Unlike · 2 William C. Haynes Nononononono February 28 at 8:05pm · Like · 1 Jeremy Abramowitz I think there is a more insidious narrative here that rationalizes the adjunctification (is that a word?) of universities as a wholly economic phenomenon. There is a story in the background about the marginalization of non-tenure track faculty and of h...See More Yesterday at 11:30am · Like Joseph Andrew I can agree with a lot of that. I'd also say there's a more intellectual problem that you have the hard sciences on one hand and then "everything else" on the other. Because the current narrative within academia (and much of society) is that knowledg...See More Yesterday at 11:37am · Like Joseph Andrew I'd highly recommend this podcast that's relevant to this conversation: http://backstoryradio.org/shows/degrees-of-freedom-3/ Degrees of Freedom As college students across the country return to campus, so does BackStory, for an episode exploring the history of... backstoryradio.org|By CO+LAB Multimedia Yesterday at 11:42am · Like · Remove Preview Joseph Andrew For the record, I think cultural studies has a place within legitimate knowledge. My concern is that many empiricists and many within the cultural studies discipline do not, which I think is a problem. Yesterday at 12:06pm · Like William C. Haynes YOUR MOM GOES TO ACADEMIA. Yesterday at 2:49pm · Unlike · 1