The issue focused on women's studies and religion.

Fellow panelist Michael Maccoby, a journalism professor at the University of Toronto, said university education "serves as a medium for academic research to be produced in which researchers study research without studying research."

'As science fiction goes, it is incredibly sci-fi-like.' - Science fiction author Annalee Newitz

"We all know that scientists have scientific experts who work with them," he said. "But academics also