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What a load of horseshit: * There are less great discoveries because there are less great and easy things to discover * Time has filtered the scientific studi
by poulpy123 4y ago
What a load of horseshit:
* There are less great discoveries because there are less great and easy things to discover
* Time has filtered the scientific studies of the previous centuries
* You don't look at the efficiency of a filter (peer reviewing) by the amount of shit that pass through, but by the rating between this amount and the amount of shit that doesn't pass through
* A lot of researchers don't want to release their raw data not because they invented their data but because they want to keep the monopoly for them
* Peer reviewing has failures and could be improved, but it is the best and quickest way to judge a scientific work (with credentials let's be honest)
- casey2 4y agoI agree, that was a load of horseshit, especially bullet 1.
- Lichtso 4y agoI strongly disagree with the first point: As a society the more we discover, the more we increase the surface of the discoverable and the more we can combine things. It only gets harder for the individual because it takes longer and longer to learn everything necessary to get to the frontier of the unknown. It is not a problem of running out of viable research topics.
- janalsncm 4y agoI agree with the easy part. The low hanging fruit has mostly been discovered. If you want to invent something new you’re probably going to need a team of SMEs working on it.