i_have_no_enemies@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoScientific progress is declining due to bureaucratization of research. Scientific innovations should make ‘zero to one’ breakthroughs, instead making ‘one to many’ improvements to existing innovationswww.livemint.comexternal-linkmessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up1207arrow-down130
arrow-up1177arrow-down1external-linkScientific progress is declining due to bureaucratization of research. Scientific innovations should make ‘zero to one’ breakthroughs, instead making ‘one to many’ improvements to existing innovationswww.livemint.comi_have_no_enemies@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square23fedilink
minus-squareBrokkr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up49·10 months agoResearchers need to be able to publish negative results or failures. They need to be encouraged to do that. Funding needs to support that. Right now it doesn’t. Mostly only “successes” are published and that’s what gets further funding.
Researchers need to be able to publish negative results or failures. They need to be encouraged to do that. Funding needs to support that.
Right now it doesn’t. Mostly only “successes” are published and that’s what gets further funding.