I agree with you that academia, atleast at the collegiate level, has become nothing more than political biased brainwashing. I am one if the good old boys that still teaches real, authentic, scientific facts. No nonsense. Just the facts. If you do not getting anything else out of what I've shared with you today, remember this:
Running is NOT an art. Running is a science. We learn science everyday to "tweak" how great of runners we can become. Dumbos who are psychologically inept at science do not and cannot become great runners. It's just not possible. They cannot grasp and comprehend the type of scientific knowledge that it takes to have good pacing, good nutrition, adequate training, adequate recovery, and most of all, they do not have the MENTALITY that it takes to have a passion for our sport and be a brilliant raceday tactician. Running and racing is a mind game, plain and simple. All of those english/history/law embiciles do not have the cognition or the intellectual capacity to make scientific APPLICATIONS in their daily lives to be a phenomenal distance runner. Math is the only universal language, and it is the language that defines our athletic prowess not just as athletes, but as human beings.
Science is NOT the process of arriving to the solution of a problem. That is the only the point of the scientific method. It's not the point of science. Science, my friend, is simply how things operate naturally within a system WITHOUT human intervention. Its nature. A politic is not a science, because politics were invented by man. If it was made by man and not nature, then it's not science. Please study the natural processes of physics, chemistry, and biology. When you dedicate your entire solitary life to observing and understanding the "big 3" and how you can use them to manipulate your body and manipulate others, only then will you be a TRUE laboratory scientist.