Heuristic: If you have data and look for questions, you'll generate insight. If you have questions and look for data, you'll generate noise
That would be nice but the biggest factor is governments treating science production *as* a technology. Goodhart's Law kicks in
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Too often, big science projects like big medicine or big DOD, become a career, where vested interests keep the project going regardless
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i.e. You do want institutionalization, but you want it to be inefficient and benignly neglectful in a specific unplannable way
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Agreed! Agenda-driven "science" (i.e. much of gov't funded science) results large volumes of low quality work.
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Moreover, big science takes place over such long timescales (eg ITER) that no individual held accountable for bad strategic decisions.
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