How Academia and Publishing are Destroying Scientific Innovation

Re:How Academia and Publishing are Destroying Scientific Inn... by leoc on Saturday March 01, 2014 @06:51AM (#7323968)

Obviously experimental physics can be extremely expensive, but coffee-and-chalk theoretical physics positions like (afaik) Higgs' have roughly the same costs as most math or humanities posts. And apparently theoretical physics has huge problems of PhD oversupply.

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Re:How Academia and Publishing are Destroying Scientific Inn... by XorNot on Saturday March 01, 2014 @08:06AM (#7324093)

Does this disprove your implicit point though? The problem is any position which doesn't cost a lot is attracting way too many people for the amount of possible work.

Meanwhile, the expensive parts - i.e. all the applied physics needed to prove or disprove theoretical physics, is not receiving appropriate funding.

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