A name used to identify a member of the academic community whose sole existence is driven not by enlightening humanity, but instead by making themselves look better through the crafting of convenient theories and nice-sounding models. In other words, academic masturbation.
"You read that article by Dervin? Yeah, she's a real wankademic."
An academic of low repute who happily attaches his name to the daily barrage of dubiously engineered, often whacky, research "findings" promoted by PR agencies to gain media coverage for their clients' products. Although whackademics often receive a monetary payment to have their name and academic establishment featured in the press release, the worst offenders often do so merely to see their name in the papers.
A survey by (insert health product) revealed that today, June 14th is National Drowsy Day. (insert whackademic's name and university)stated: "we calculated that our seratonin levels are at their lowest level on June 14th due to a combination of external and physiological factors on this day and therefore it's important to take extra supplements to combat this phenomenon"
A phenomenon in film/television series, most notably streaming series, where the main premise is drawn out to such a point that it takes an entire season or more to get the parts of the series the audience is actually interested in seeing.
For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale.
I watched "Smallville" on Netflix the other day. Dude, it was ten seasons of filler before he finally flew! Major Surf Dracula Syndrome!
Finding your way back to the truth by fixing on one verified fact and working out from there, the way you navigate by the North Star when everything around you is spinning.
Rumours were flyingeverywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.
A plate of brown consists of foods that have little to no nutritional value, and are typically deep fried. A true plate of brown will also be accompanied by a dark soda.
When finance content creators rent out fancy cars and flexcash to seem richer than they really are in order to promote and sell their “get rich quick” courses.