barbos
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These rankings have nothing to do with undergrad education. In fact they can not be applied outside the western system, certainly not to Russian system which is very different.
Wave of the hand without even reading the criteria or what is ranked. That's Russian science for you. Thank you for showing Lysenkoism is alive and well in Russia. These are undergraduate rankings sir.
Sheesh.
Have you joined the climate change deniers yet? You seem to have all the attributes necessary.
I know these criteria, I just don't think they are relevant to undergrad education, not to mention they are heavily biased toward US and other western universities.
Speaking of criteria, I bet publications are part of that criteria, right?
Besides obvious objection that publications are >90% garbage, there are other less known things.
Here is a story I recently red about. Russian archaeologists make a discovery and publish it in russian journal. Japanese archaeologists write a paper and quote and cite this russian publication. But here is a thing, Russian journal is written in Russian and japanese paper is in english.
Do you want to know what happens next? Japanese get all the citation and russian gets none, even though all they essentially did was translating it. How do you think this is reflected in these ratings?
Now you can blame these stupid russians for using russian but it is what it is.
By the way, Lysenkov was somewhat right, accidentally but right.
And I don't know how he is relevant to present but US had its fair share of bad science and charlatans
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