In science, "me-too research" is also known as "replication", and it's one of the pillars of the scientific method. There should be more of it, not less (as rec

In science, "me-too research" is also known as "replication", and it's one of the pillars of the scientific method. There should be more of it, not less (as recent crisis have shown). "Incremental research" is 99.999% of what scientists do. Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein are very, very, very unusual scientists. That's a good sign, by the way -- if science was suffering major paradigm shifts every day, that would mean that no stable knowledge was being produced. Keeping in mind that we are talking about extending the healthy lifespan of human beings -- that could be the people you love -- who cares about "being cool"?