1. This is amazing 2. I had never considered the idea of careerism as “immunity” to knowledge sharing. That’s an incredibly powerful insight. You could consider toxic members in any community have similar effects.
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"Somehow some science gets done anyway!" — well the degree is much higher IRL. In the sims, each scientist can only talk to 4 others! "Informal networks" — I've heard this called the "invisible college" and I _love_ that term.
Btw, David, I think you'd really like this essay (which I excerpted for you a couple weeks ago): https://thestoryofscience.blogspot.com/?m=0 I would also love to hear your thoughts on it! It talks about invisible colleges and systemic problems with science and many other things.
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Thank, I enjoyed this! Its description of the pathologies of institutional science are mostly correct I think. They’ve been clear to the clueful for decades, have gotten progressively worse, and are now so bad that even the MSM are writing about the problems.
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The question is what to do about it. Charlton is nostalgic for “the systematic mode” or “high modernism” or “the golden age of rationalism,” which ended in the late 60s. What he’d really like to do is to restore that, which gives him a cranky reactionary tone, but >
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Oh hmm. We should discuss this
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