The PI there was *incredible* but she spent most of her time writing bullshit grants justifying her work w/ handwaving about songbird . . .
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. . . learning as a good model for humans. [narrator] analogues of zebra finch auditory learning structures are not present in human brains
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Last I heard she quit and became the Chief Science Officer of a startup somewhere. This seems like a vastly better use of her talents tbqh.
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Anyway, what I'm trying to say is, there's lately a lot of (justified, imo) criticism of humanities and their ideology-driven hollowing
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To say nothing of replication crises in the social sciences, to varying degrees. But even the natural sciences, even in application-heavy...
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fields, seem like they're unwell. My gut sense is the cause of this seems to have something to do with organizational theory and incentives
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one of my unpopular hipster opinions*is that you're right and cancer biomedicine will turn out to be even worse than pyschology…
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when it comes to replication etc. sure enough I'd bet money on it *not intentional,sometimes I'm contrarian on purpose, not here
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I never worked in the cancer-industrial complex but my gut sense is that it's as bad as you suspect. The sheer amount of \
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money flowing in seems like it warps incentives to make every pitch about Curing Cancer. And NGO funders facilitate this? \
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In Seattle there are fricking bus and billboard ads about Data Science to Cure Cancer which obvs screams "money pit," "scam"
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