Nobel prizes have been won by both commercial and military labs. The idea that they don’t do science is ridiculous. Moreover, just because your conducting empir

Nobel prizes have been won by both commercial and military labs. The idea that they don’t do science is ridiculous. Moreover, just because your conducting empirical research and haven’t explained your results yet with a theory doesn’t mean you’re not doing science. Scientific results can come about through many avenues. Sometimes it’s just pure curiousity, and sometimes it’s because you’re trying to solve a practical problem and end up doing research that yields breakthroughs. And each environment has their negatives, it’s not like academia doesn’t have toxic politics, slaving of grad students, publish-or-perish, the race to get grants, etc I mean he may bring up some legitimate issues but his whole ‘I met a few people and let me extrapolate this to the industry as a whole’ is itself anti scientific.