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Why does science not improve as fast as it used to
- chiefalchemist 3y agoOr simply...big incremental breakthroughs are hard. They are not the rule. They are the exception. It's easy - and also human nature - after the fact to forget the gazillion pot holes smashed into and associated tire changes once some milestone is hit. Let's try a sport analogy for this. Teams and fans celebrate the winning of the World Cup. Few are taking a champagne shower thinking about the hours and hours of training. That's all in the past. The milestone is all that matters. All that aside, science - not to be confused with Science (upper case S) - had become too much like politics (and "journalism"). Too much for show. Too much for ego. Too mucmuch data cherry picking. Too many incentives to over-state. Too mamany "peer reviews" influenced by favoritism, etc. And as I write this, this is at the top of the HN list: https://www.science.org/content/article/misconduct-concerns-possible-drug-risks-should-stop-stroke-trial-whistleblowers-say https://www.science.org/content/article/misconduct-concerns-...
- imcakmak 3y agoThanks a lot for the feedback. I fully agree on corruption in academia. Lately I've been thinking hard trying to put everything that's happening in science & technology into a proper frame, in the hopes that it will guide me about what to do individually. (Lots of good areas to focus on.)