High-risk exploratory science gets starved: making research a popularity contest kills breakthroughs
michaelrzhang · x · 2026-09-27
Sharing a pointed comment from hobart arguing that high-risk, exploratory science receives less attention and funding precisely because it is less certain to yield publishable results — and that reducing science to a popularity contest is a sure way to ensure breakthroughs never happen.
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