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Boosted for my followers - see the Nature news piece above in this thread: "‘Disruptive’ science has declined — and no one knows why".

Don Braben has argued since the 1980s that funding mechanisms (peer review, dependence on track record doing exactly the same thing in the past, and vetocracy by committee) are the problem, and disruptive scientists like Planck and Einstein would not get funding today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Braben

https://doi.org/10.1038/316401a0

https://doi.org/10.1016/S0378-4371(02)01065-8

#MetaScience #research #ResearchFunding #funding #academiaews piece