There aren’t many things more important than the dynamics of our scientific progress. Last year, @michael_nielsen and I started to wonder how things have fared over the past century. Here’s the result:https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1063417043372859392 …
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Great essay! I wish it had also talked about solutions. Michael does suggest one in his Twitter thread: The scientific research process is just too rigid and inhibits progress. We need more competition to force these processes to be more efficient. Do you not agree with that?
Sure. At an individual level there's already a tonne of competition. But at the institutional level, much less so. Not much turnover in the supposed top research universities! Or the big grant agencies.
