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Please be more specific about what you find "a gem"? Writing patents is what most universities wait for from their employees; grants from research foundations

• bell-cot 2y ago
  "Gem" - how about a lovely little summary of many of the fundamental problems with modern scientific research? I'll assume you've heard of the replication crisis, recent waves of retractions, "authors" who know almost nothing about the papers they've "written", and other signs that modern Big Science has pretty well stamped out all of the nice ideals about trustworthy & truth-seeking science & scientists which are still taught to schoolkids and the general public? > What would be more interesting... True. Mostly because, compared to the pharma industry and research foundations, the total funding available to those folks is on the very close order of $zero.
  • JPLeRouzic 2y ago
    > "authors" who know almost nothing about the papers they've "written" I agree this is quite common at least in the field that interests me: Neurodegenerative diseases. > "True. Mostly because compared to the pharma industry and research foundations..." I don't know, at the same time we would have no medical drugs without these organisms and yet they are vastly inefficient in their resource allocations: Testing drugs that were already tested or testing drugs without any pre-clinical indication they would have any beneficial effect or using animal models like mice, fishes, worms or even worse immortal cells that do not model human anatomy or physiology at all.