3 ms·
I think people have recognized that the current research grant system tends to reward safe, status quo ideas, and discourage potentially revolutionary risky lon
by bawolff 2y ago
I think people have recognized that the current research grant system tends to reward safe, status quo ideas, and discourage potentially revolutionary risky long shot ideas. Its been talked about for a long time now. Maybe even decades at this point.
The hard part is what to do about it.
- FrustratedMonky 2y agoSabine Hossenfelder had video on this exact subject. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKiBlGDfRU8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKiBlGDfRU8
- immibis 2y agoNote that Sabine Hossenfelder is a rather unreliable source for anything outside her field of expertise.
- salomonk_mur 2y agoHence, more savvy researchers would rather get private funding instead of jumping through grant hoops.
- knowaveragejoe 2y agoThere isn't an infinite amount of grant money to go around, and of course handing it out to any crackpot that comes along is going to be a nonstarter. It seems to me that the solution is somewhere in between the two extremes.