"What is useful is solving problems and trying to explain the world. That's what people like Newton, Darwin and Einstein were doing."
Of course. And that's why they are in the history books.
But now the most part of "scientific studies" have two objectives:
- Meet grant / tenure criteria of published papers
- Prove the new drug by "Big Pharma" is better than the old one whose patents are expiring. The fact that several are disproved afterwards is irrelevant.
At least we still have the LHC guys, the Hubble guys, MSL, AMS. But don't be surprised if those are accused of not being "real scientists" as well.
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"What is useful is solving problems and trying to explain the world. That's what people like Newton, Darwin and Einstein were doing."
Of course. And that's why they are in the history books.
But now the most part of "scientific studies" have two objectives:
- Meet grant / tenure criteria of published papers
- Prove the new drug by "Big Pharma" is better than the old one whose patents are expiring. The fact that several are disproved afterwards is irrelevant.
At least we still have the LHC guys, the Hubble guys, MSL, AMS. But don't be surprised if those are accused of not being "real scientists" as well.