[DataDive]

Fundamentally, the problem is today science is framed as nothing else but a competition, an olymic event, that produces winners that we celebrate and losers, rather than cooperation.

If you got the grant, you won; if you did not, you lost. Losing means you cannot hire graduate students you cannot perform your job at all!

Now consider that around 15% of grants get funded, and it takes about six months to determine whether you got that grant or not.

The desperate competition for money overshadows everything in science.

Science is often thought of and presented as huge leaps, when in reality, it is an iterative process that builds on small advances.