Today we award the Knowsitall Award for Academic Arrogance to James Watson for his amazing success in taking credit for the work of Rosalind Franklin. There is a general misunderstanding about the Nobel Prize. The award os not given for the scientist, but for the discovery and only for a[...]
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KNOWSITALL AWARD
THE Ave Awards MIT ‘s Professor Richard Lindzen the Knowsitall Award for Academic Arrogance Drudge gleefully reports that Professor Richard Lindzen is urging caution in response to a proposal to spend $40,000,000 Massachusetts dollars ameliorating climate change. In their view, Ri[...]
May 9th, 2016 - 11:08 am § in The Ave Scene
It’s rather ridiculous to name something as phallic as a tunnel boring machine after a woman.
Over at Crosscut, Knute Berger writes abut the role of the Washington State Department of Transportation We have another candidate for a Knowsitall award. Knute Berger is the self appointed guru of Seattle journalism, a relic actually of the glory days when David Brewster fostered good writing as [...]
December 6th, 2014 - 3:06 pm § in Misc.
Feast Day of St. Nicholas
Patron Saint of poor girls and the inspiration for Herman Knowsitall’s founding of Koombya University.[...]
December 30th, 2013 - 11:15 pm § in Israel/Palestine, Misc.
More Academic Arrogance From The American Studies Association
The ASA has about 5000 members. of these only 16.5% voted for the resolution. Calling this a democratic decision is a distortion of the concept of democracy. At best this ASA decision to support a boycott of all Israeli Universities was reached by a small cabal, empowered by lack of interest by th[...]
December 29th, 2013 - 12:58 pm § in Misc.
TA Awards Medal for Academic Arrogance
Professor Herman Knowsitall Commemorative Medal for Academic Arrogance THE Ave Committee on Academic Awards* has awarded its first Knowsitall Award to the American Studies Association for their position paper in support of the boycott of Israel’s Universities. The document is[...]
Academic Arrogance: of profs and lawyers
The philosopher Foucault pointed out that knowledge and power are so intimately related that we cannot really think about them separately. Sadly, Foucault missed the point shown by the career of Herman Knowsitall. Often. especially in business. peope in power .. the bosses .. insist that they know[...]