[ablatt89]

Lots of conflicting views held by the scientific community:

* Science is progressing too fast * Science is progressing too slow with not enough breakthroughs * The barrier to publish is too high and is wrought with politics * There's too many papers published and we need a higher bar as not everyone is a genius * My research is important and deserves funding * Others research is trivial and they don't deserve funding * Committees suck, they do nothing, just gate-keep who gets money and there's politics involved * X research is trivial, shouldn't receive funding, someone has to stop this * The public should understand what we're doing research on * A lot of the research being published is being exaggerated in quality, difficulty and correctness

I guess it's no different than the conflicting views of any community. If there's no conflict, things get stale.

[bombolo]

there are many researches on going, so all of these opinions can be valid at the same time