Science

Recently had a discussion about this new Nature article that came out about the decline in “disruptive” or “major breakthrough” papers over time in the scientific community. They draw several conclusions at the end as to why this is happening, but what do you think?

Here’s the link

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05543-x.epdf?sharing_token=bW6vIGd9ngsQAOgppK1zPdRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0POYMmYHFzHEljmrzCfH8R-ZNRnCDtKZ-A6oW7dWqr7srm-PCI-JxnyVh-RAKd8yvdofu3je6npdcKoEMvBOvcgtr3_sV0KRXviNn0yIBKt9LOrD2NQwgqk69KvgpKPSAU%3D

Think academia’s narrowness and incrementalism is part of the problem

Reliance on grant funding 

Costs of research

What do you think?

I think reliance on grant funding and academia’s focus on paper quantity > quality is another issue that is part of this problem