Comment by glimshe
2 hours ago
A depressing statement that does nothing to increase people's support of working Mathematicians. It feels like a low-effort political hit as opposed to the balanced writeups we've been reading from top Mathematicians like Terence Tao.
this was guest posted onto his blog i believe so you may want to hold that thought
He may accept this point of view, but I've never seen something like this coming from his mouth. Even then, while I'm a fan of Tao, it doesn't mean that I have to agree with everything he does.