New essay from @patrickc and myself, arguing that science has suffered from greatly diminishing returns over the past century:https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/diminishing-returns-science/575665/ …
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Very true, REF submissions are often dubious and short-termist. Following up on the point about the Haldane principle, what do you think of researchers anonymously allocating a given part of the funding to projects/people they believe in?https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2014/01/new-funding-model-scientists …
My answer to essentially every reasonable proposal (as this) is: I think people should try it. What I dislike, as mentioned in the thread, is monoculture, lack of ways to generate new forms of organization, and for growing things which work.
