#What does perish mean full

Being coined an expert on X by the local media a single time would allow you to survive at such a university for a decade (at any level from a PhD student to a Full Professor) without being concerned with perishing. But often an interview with such a researcher in a local newspaper would count at the place more than a first-class academic journal. Most often, at least at some stage in the career, you still need to publish something. At such places, doing research would resemble a kind of a cargo cult. I am speaking for instance about universities in countries, where rigorous science and high education, for whatever reasons, does not have a very strong tradition. Yet, on paper they claim to do research, so working there, you would be officially a researcher. firstly, at this site, we tend to forget that academia is not only the first league of the few top-notch research universities, but includes a MASS of smaller universities and research institutes in all sorts of small, hidden corners of the world which tend either not to produce academic output in terms of journal articles, books, conference papers, etc., but at which they live and breath by e.g., primarily education, local politics, etc.YES, albeit probably only in atypical settings. Is it possible to be a researcher without concerning about 'Publish or perish'? First a disclaimer: I personally do not agree with some 'ways of life' I am going to describe and already upvoted other answers :-).

What does perish mean