>"Peter Thiel has been pointing this out for many years. He asks, do we really have scientists anymore? Or are they really bureaucrats and politicians pretendin

>"Peter Thiel has been pointing this out for many years. He asks, do we really have scientists anymore? Or are they really bureaucrats and politicians pretending to be scientists? I am convinced it is the latter. I think we have whole universities filled with cargo cult science. This relates neatly with some awkward facts about the modern education system. For all the extraordinary efforts and feats of intellectual prowess it is also extraordinary how little they practically achieve. The number of breakthroughs has dramatically declined. Once you get past the PR bullshit and backslapping there is very little actually happening in many places in the ‘innovation economy’. Take nanotech. I am not aware of any advances that make their appearance in a consumer’s home. I can think only of a handful of niche applications like expensive hydrophobic coatings. If the advances were occurring in the factories we should be seeing more refined low cost goods on a massive scale. Is that actually happening? I don’t know that it is. We’ve been promised a lot and been waiting for long time. Take biotech. Nothing. Just nothing. I think the last biotechnology I interacted with was a yogurt. Can anybody name a single biotech invention or innovation that actually exists in people’s houses? In the 50s and 60s we had the Green Revolution, that counts. However the price of food has been rising considerably for several years now. There is certainly no food product that I consume that has become much cheaper." This is extremely condescending. Just because you might not understand science doesn't mean there are no scientists anymore. Science works slow, what do you mean how little they achieve? Maternal mortality is at an all time low, we nearly have a cure for AIDS, life expectancy has dramatically increased, Cas9 offers new therapeutic hope for millions. "If the advances were occurring in the factories we should be seeing more refined low cost goods on a massive scale." Do you know how cheap goods are these days? So cheap that American fisherman catch tuna, ship it to china to be processed ad canned and ship it back to US markets. "Take biotech. Nothing. Just nothing." This must be satire.