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The Science Game is a natural result of the marketisation of science. (It's not the only factor of course.)
by TazeTSchnitzel 5y ago
The Science Game is a natural result of the marketisation of science. (It's not the only factor of course.)
- phreeza 5y agoOthers would argue it's kind of the opposite, funding of science by risk-averse and bureaucratic government agencies.
- derbOac 5y agoIt's really both. At least some of the marketing hype, maybe most of the hype, in the scientific community tends to coalesce around ideas that are obvious already, or that are on everyone's minds, or are appealing for very risk-averse reasons (something that allows one to churn out papers). The funding is risk averse along these same lines, in that it tends to follow slightly dated hype.