This is a very good article...but I feel the title -- although as original as it is on the original web page -- is a bit misleading... When I first read the ti

This is a very good article...but I feel the title -- although as original as it is on the original web page -- is a bit misleading... When I first read the title, I thought it was about certain big specific research problems in certain specific disciplines (or multidisciplinary ones at best ); after I read several beginning paragraphs and the subsection titles, I realized it was more about the conflict between the survivals of researchers, especially those less established and more vulnerable ones -- as individuals in the academic world that is becoming increasingly bureaucratic each day -- and the survivals of our genuine pursuits after truth and knowledge, or less grandiosely, mere personal curiosities, which would make the life of each of us ultimately meaningful... I think the problems presented in the article are quite real (according to my personal experience)...and just for a tl;dr, let me list those problems below, "Is the point of research to make other professional academics happy, or is it to learn more about the world? -- Noah Grand former lecturer in sociology, UCLA" 1. Academia has a huge money problem 2. Too many studies are poorly designed. Blame bad incentives 3. Replicating results is crucial. But scientists rarely do it. 4. Peer review is broken. 5. Too much science is locked behind paywalls. 6. Science is poorly communicated to the public. 7. Life as a young academic is incredibly stressful.