One of the alternately entertaining and depressing things about the culture wars in the US is the existence of a sort of parallel academic universe, in the form of vanity universities like Oral Roberts University, Bob Jones University, and Jerry Fallwell’s Liberty University. These provide both a thin veneer of credibility for pseudo-academic nonsense and a launching point for hilarious academic misconduct.<\/p>\n
There’s really nothing comparable on the militant atheist side. But here’s your chance, Pharynguloids: Myers University is for sale<\/a>:<\/p>\n Don’t write the obituary for Myers University yet. The judge who granted a temporary restraining order on Monday to stall closure plans now says he hopes to help broker a sale.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Granted, I had never heard of Myers University before this morning, but you have to admit, this is a perfect opportunity. They even spell it correctly.<\/p>\n You’ll have to act quickly, because they have a prospective buyer already lined up, but you’re not going to get a better chance to have an atheist vanity university. Think of it– you could put together a theology department staffed entirely by god-deniers, hire faculty and then censure them for going to church, have lurid affairs with department secretaries…<\/p>\n I think this is just what the culture wars need.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hat-tip: Inside Higher Ed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of the alternately entertaining and depressing things about the culture wars in the US is the existence of a sort of parallel academic universe, in the form of vanity universities like Oral Roberts University, Bob Jones University, and Jerry Fallwell’s Liberty University. These provide both a thin veneer of credibility for pseudo-academic nonsense and… Continue reading University of Pharyngula?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5,30,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-blogs","category-religion","category-silliness","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n