When Mission Statements go bad I've got nothing against Mission Statements. Really! But I do detest buzzword-laden overwritten cruft like this:

"The mission of the Department of Biostatistics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is to forge advances in science that benefit human health through profound and paradigm-shifting innovations in biostatistical methodology and theory as well as the thoughtful implementation of biostatistical methods in practice."

Paradigm-shifting, even! Spare me.
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