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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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[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world 70 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'd argue that venture capitalists are the cause of lack of scientific breakthroughs.

[–] neutron@thelemmy.club 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Are we going to hear about enshittification in academia, too? Ugh.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

Enshittification is pump-and-dump for companies over years instead of stocks over days/months.

Academia's problems with replication and funding for null/negative results have been known about for a while and are a separate problem. I guess it could be argued that they're related in that maybe an academic's career shouldn't be based on the profit cycle of their institution.