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Re:‘A very disturbing picture’: another retraction for contr... by Ericson2314 on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @01:42PM (#36881725)
A fundamental problem with research academia is that we scaled it up massively without introducing more division of labor.
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Re:‘A very disturbing picture’: another retraction for contr... by troupe on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @01:43PM (#36881742)
Interesting. I'm not sure I fully understand what you are saying though. Can you expand on that?
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Re:‘A very disturbing picture’: another retraction for contr... by Ericson2314 on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @05:58PM (#36885715)
It's all throwing PhDs at novel research. Boring reproducing known things is just one type of support work that is neglected. There is a vast "supply chain" of work that allows novel research to be done, and we've neglected it.
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