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Yeah, I've witnessed this myself. The amount of money that goes into materials projects with "medical imaging" or similar supposed applications is crazy. Most o
by zeofig 6y ago
Yeah, I've witnessed this myself. The amount of money that goes into materials projects with "medical imaging" or similar supposed applications is crazy. Most of these "novel" materials are created by some process the authors don't fully understand. They usually have some electrical or optical properties that are unusual, but given the range of possible materials almost anything can turn out to be unusual in some way. Anyway, you combine such materials with a few big names, and you keep the grant snowball rolling rolling rolling, and you publish in Nature XYZ on a monthly basis. Meanwhile I see professors doing good and serious fundamental work in condensed matter (and many other areas) losing their jobs.
- b215826 6y agoIn this spirit, I really like this disclaimer from the conclusion of a preprint on the arXiv [1]: > This paper is not intended for journal publication. Therefore, it lacks the delusional claims typically found in published papers about its (simultaneous) relevance to drug design, nanoelectronics, photonics, spintronics or any other fashionable application. Also, everyone can sleep at peace without worrying about missed citations and their h-index (and without e-mailing me to complain about them). [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.1232v3 https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.1232v3