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by mnky9800n
392 days ago
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I think in some ways science has been co-opted by careerists who try to minmax output to accelerate their careers. Being idea obsessed is part of this. It’s much easier to get a paper published that’s on the hype train as opposed to a paper that challenges some idea. Publications justify grant money, grant money justifies more people and more power, more power justifies promotions. And if you talk with early career scientists they all will say they are only doing it until they get a permanent position. Then they will become more curious. Maybe they do, maybe they don’t, I have many older colleagues who are quite curious compared to their younger counterparts. but I believe rewarding ambition at the expense of curiosity is somewhat anti intellectual. It’s sad because I think science should reorganise as the current structure of departments into disciplines may be dated and restructuring could help alleviate this a lot since interdisciplinary work may leverage curiousity over ambition as curiosity will be rewarded with high impact work. But who knows. I can arm chair my way into anything. |
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