Any evaluation metric is subject to political influences. Whatever the exact mechanism, it's people who are evaluating the papers, and people have political vie

Any evaluation metric is subject to political influences. Whatever the exact mechanism, it's people who are evaluating the papers, and people have political views. The time Thiel pines for is simply the time when the US government spent more money funding science, so that there was less competition to get funding. https://ssti.org/blog/changing-nature-us-basic-research-trends-federal-spending https://ssti.org/blog/changing-nature-us-basic-research-tren...