Bad journalism should be a sackable offence

Case in point: an absurd article in the Wall Street Journal that compares Newton to the modern academic, claims autistic people cannot possibly behave in public, and asks if Newton would fit as he was in the 17th century into a 21st century university, and then concludes that no, he would not, because modern academia has gone to the dogs and also ‘something tells [the author] he wouldn’t’. Of…