mrttao
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What are you even smoking?The amount of this required to get anywhere new makes college or university ties rather important, because the up-to-date textbooks and studies are not easy to get elsewhere. There is no longer a reasonable expectation of "law hanging fruit", testing theories takes large sums of money to pay for the equipment and cross-referencing thousands of pages of previous works in a great many areas of research.
you literally can buy any college textbook online. The notion that you cannot buy textbooks outside of college is ridiculous
Even if you magically couldn't, you could drive to a local college and buy the books in their on campus store without being a student.
No need to pay for 4-7 years of classes to just buy and read the books.
And yes, developing new science requires the scientist to read books about existing science... so?
I didn't say abolish universities and I didn't say scientists don't need to read books.
I said: universities can train doctors and engineers (of varying quality based on university quality), but they cannot create a scientist.
AT BEST (if working correctly) they can provide a budding scientist with a foundation, and he can do better by just reading college level textbooks at home instead of attending university.