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Scientific progress is declining due to bureaucratization of research. Scientific innovations should make ‘zero to one’ breakthroughs, instead making ‘one to many’ improvements to existing innovations (www.livemint.com)
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[–] Brokkr@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] technojamin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, we need to celebrate negative results, it’s still good scientific work. Hold the “grounding” scientists up in esteem next to the “groundbreaking” ones. All of the people who do scientific work are necessary for further scientific discovery and in the search for truth.