God. This.
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And worse you may well end up with a like-minded club pursuing a smoke-and-mirrors field that couldn't make it in academia at all and that exists only because your institution is so well-funded it can spew out hundreds of cut-and-paste nonsense papers every year.
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(Presumably you can guess some of the ones I have in mind!) This is especially a risk if the funder got sold on the bogus field by smoke-and-mirrors in the first place, and then is ego-invested in keeping it going in the face of doubters.
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My current thinking: A grant-maker/funder(s) should be in a position to recognize a credible reformer or rebel for any given field. And decisions should not be consensus driven.
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