American Science is in Dangerous Decline while Chinese Research Surges, Experts Warn
www.scientificamerican.com
The U.S. sorely needs a coordinated national research strategy, says Marcia McNutt, president of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences
  • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
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    3 months ago

    Science is captured by corpos… They pay for a bulk of it and they get results they need.

    Who carws if it is fake, we won’t find out for 10 years but corpos get the PR when they need it.

    • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      Isn’t a lot of science still publicly funded? iirc part of the problem is that initial and thus risky research is publicly funded but as soon as it shows promise some strange magic occurs that turns it into private intelectual property.