Many college professors have extremely light teaching responsibilities — usually 9 classroom hours per week or less. The justification for such minimal teaching loads is that profs need to have time for their research.
Most Americans then think of professors scurrying about in a laboratory to discover great things to cure diseases.

Well, a few of them do. Most academic “research” is remarkably inconsequential, though. In this column Mike Adams reveals the dirty little secret that academic research can be perfectly ridiculous.