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After decades of publish-or-perish sweatshop science I'm sure the great shining archive of scientific truth is sort of like an inbox with no spam filter.
by api 14y ago
After decades of publish-or-perish sweatshop science I'm sure the great shining archive of scientific truth is sort of like an inbox with no spam filter.
- evoloution 14y agoSuch a powerful sentence. Lately science looks like olympic games without anti-doping control...
- api 14y agoI'm becoming pretty convinced that the human future depends on the disruption and obsolescence of bureaucracies.
- spikels 14y agoI think you are on to something. When science became so big that it first needed then eventually was run by "managers" I bet it lost much of its effectiveness. But how do we change this? For starters there is a lot of money involved for the institutions conducting this (apparently shoddy) research.
- kanzure 14y ago> When science became so big that it first needed then eventually was run by "managers" I bet it lost much of its effectiveness. You can just do projects on your own, you know. There's nothing about science that absolutely requires an institution. http://groups.google.com/group/diybio http://groups.google.com/group/diybio