Dr. Bernard Carroll, known as the "conscience of psychiatry," contributed to various blogs, including Margaret Soltan's University Diaries, for which he sometimes wrote limericks under the name Adam.
New York Times
George Washington University English professor Margaret Soltan writes a blog called University Diaries, in which she decries the Twilight Zone-ish state our holy land’s institutes of higher ed find themselves in these days.
The Electron Pencil
It’s [UD's] intellectual honesty that makes her blog required reading.
Professor Mondo
There's always something delightful and thought intriguing to be found at Margaret Soltan's no-holds-barred, firebrand tinged blog about university life.
AcademicPub
You can get your RDA of academic liars, cheats, and greedy frauds at University Diaries. All disciplines, plus athletics.
truffula, commenting at Historiann
Margaret Soltan at University Diaries blogs superbly and tirelessly about [university sports] corruption.
Dagblog
University Diaries. Hosted by Margaret Soltan, professor of English at George Washington University. Boy is she pissed — mostly about athletics and funding, the usual scandals — but also about distance learning and diploma mills. She likes poems too. And she sings.
Dissent: The Blog
[UD belittles] Mrs. Palin's degree in communications from the University of Idaho...
The Wall Street Journal
Professor Margaret Soltan, blogging at University Diaries... provide[s] an important voice that challenges the status quo.
Lee Skallerup Bessette, Inside Higher Education
[University Diaries offers] the kind of attention to detail in the use of language that makes reading worthwhile.
Sean Dorrance Kelly, Harvard University
Margaret Soltan's ire is a national treasure.
Roland Greene, Stanford University
The irrepressibly to-the-point Margaret Soltan...
Carlat Psychiatry Blog
Margaret Soltan, whose blog lords it over the rest of ours like a benevolent tyrant...
Perplexed with Narrow Passages
Margaret Soltan is no fan of college sports and her diatribes on the subject can be condescending and annoying. But she makes a good point here...
Outside the Beltway
From Margaret Soltan's excellent coverage of the Bernard Madoff scandal comes this tip...
Money Law
University Diaries offers a long-running, focused, and extremely effective critique of the university as we know it.
Anthony Grafton, American Historical Association
The inimitable Margaret Soltan is, as usual, worth reading. ...
Medical Humanities Blog
I awake this morning to find that the excellent Margaret Soltan has linked here and thereby singlehandedly given [this blog] its heaviest traffic...
Ducks and Drakes
As Margaret Soltan, one of the best academic bloggers, points out, pressure is mounting ...
The Bitch Girls
Many of us bloggers worry that we don’t post enough to keep people’s interest: Margaret Soltan posts every day, and I more or less thought she was the gold standard.
Tenured Radical
University Diaries by Margaret Soltan is one of the best windows onto US university life that I know.
Mary Beard, A Don's Life
[University Diaries offers] a broad sense of what's going on in education today, framed by a passionate and knowledgeable reporter.
More magazine, Canada
If deity were an elected office, I would quit my job to get her on the ballot.
Notes of a Neophyte
October 24th, 2011 at 5:02PM
To what extent is this not confined to psychiatry?
The U.S. will soon change from the ICD-9 (International Classification of Disease) to ICD-10. The number of coded diagnoses for clinicians will increase from about 18,000 to about 140,000.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904103404576560742746021106.html
October 24th, 2011 at 5:21PM
meh, the American public is literally eating it up.
sadly the question of an uninformed/unengaged population is one of the key driving factors in most of our health woes as a country with no magic pill in sight for that social ill.
maybe we should start a contest to come up with a diagnosis for it.
October 27th, 2011 at 4:38AM
dmf,
I agree but unfortunately it’s not just about being unengaged or uninformed. That condition derives from more than simple laziness. Digging deeper it seems that this is about avoiding a fearful state – ignorance is bliss.
Psychiatry and clin. psych., as conceived in the popular mind and as presented by many in the field, purport to offer the answer/solution/treatment/cure to life’s difficult problems. In reality these problems often lack solutions, or at least solutions which are palatable. It can be disheartening and even terrifying to confront this, and so people would rather do something else than acknowledge it.
I know many persons for whom curiosity, a will to labor and intellectual ability are not at issue. Yet they remain ignorant of many issues for one reason: they lack the will to look upon many things (often those which relate to human suffering) simply because doing so will make them extremely uncomfortable.