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Re:‘A very disturbing picture’: another retraction for contr... by nickff on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @01:43PM (#36881743)
I don't want to be pedantic or argumentative, but I think you've created a straw-man of the comment you're replying to.

scientific institutions != scientific method

Academia is the most prestigious scientific institution.

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Re:‘A very disturbing picture’: another retraction for contr... by xqcgrek2 on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @02:37PM (#36882704)
>Academia is the most prestigious scientific institution.

For some. For others its national labs, like Los Alamos or NASA centers. In those, the culture is very different.

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Re:‘A very disturbing picture’: another retraction for contr... by dingnuts on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @02:48PM (#36882896)
>Academia is the most prestigious scientific institution.

That's an opinion. Industry does a lot more worthwhile science than academia, and does it without tax money, in my opinion.

Was the transistor invented by academia? You can argue that's engineering, rather than science. In my opinion the difference is semantics.

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Re:‘A very disturbing picture’: another retraction for contr... by cycomanic on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @03:19PM (#36883394)
Apart from the fact that you seriously overestimate the amount of science being done in industry, you seem to also underestimate the amount of government assistance industry receives for doing this research (and more development), either through tax breaks or direct grants.
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Re:‘A very disturbing picture’: another retraction for contr... by nickff on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @03:04PM (#36883159)
I agree that industry does a lot of worthwhile science, and maybe more than academia, but I was talking about 'prestige', not 'productivity'.
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