/lit/ - Literature

How do you all pretend otherwise. I'm a new psychiatric nurse practitioner and seeing the academia to pharma pipeline, and the absolute control the industry has over academic peer reviewed research/conclusions is astounding. There is literally no such thing as academic freedom or independent research. Academia is fully at the service of the corporate world and uses the concept of intellectual freedom as a marketing tool for these corporations. They willingly, gladly lie and manipulate results about drugs and every single researcher is in on it.

Why would this not be true in any other field? Even in a field without money backing it, why would any ideas be allowed that hurt the university's bottom line? The Ivies and major privates are functionally hedge funds when you get down to it. Everything related to education is secondary.

So please tell me how edgy communists believe they can get a humanities education at a college and subvert the system when the system is supplying them with every single idea in their heads?