Innovation in Science Is on The Decline And We're Not Sure Why

Science Alert ^ | 5 Jan 2023 | Daniel Lawler and Juliette Collen

[hinckley buzzard]

Right. And a lot of good answers here already. But one we need to bear in mind is that the flow of creativity waxes and wanes, like everything else in nature. There was a point in about the 1880’s when the head of the patent office suggested it be closed, because “everything of any significance has now already been invented.”

[E. Pluribus Unum]

[Jim Noble]

Peer review.

[cgbg]

Yup—science today has a narrative that must be obeyed.

In other words it is a cult.

There is nothing new that can be learned in a cult.

[sten]

The left has been working since the early 90s to remove WHITE MALES from the STEM fields.

25 years later and we have a noticeable drop in innovation.

go figure.

blacks and women won’t be picking up the slack in the STEM fields.

sorry, woke-tards.

[packagingguy]

If unorthodox research is not funded then researchers will only conduct “safe” research they know can be funded.

In the private sector there is a regulatory stranglehold on companies which prevents innovation.

[Paladin2]

STEM is going woke.

[TigersEye]

Bureaucratized and politicized. “Science” has sold out for easy taxpayer bucks.

Witness GlobalClimateWarmingChange science for a premiere example of political horse dookie.

[lurk]

We are not free to discuss the woke elephant in the room.

[Liaison]

Science: modern def: politicizing of research for personal and monetary gain at the expense of true knowledge and the betterment of society.

[dsrtsage]

So sad that downfall just so happened to coincidentally coincide with affirmative action and wokeism in STEM

[Liaison]

The 900 pound gorilla agrees with you.

[Publius]

A modern American version of Lysenkoism.

[EEGator]

At least we have more women and minorities in STEM fields…

[Qwapisking]

Either everything that can be learned HAS been learned or we aren’t capable of learning anything more.

[norwaypinesavage]

Science is DIEing, and the Woke don’t know why?

[grey_whiskers]

Scientism has replaced science!

"I F'ing Love" has replaced science.

[Mr. Blond]

Quotas for blacks and women in STEM.

[Nervous Tick]

Scientism has replaced science!

"It may be that the budding religious cult [of Covidism] prevailed rapidly because Covidism was purported to be based on science. But it is actually an offshoot of the religion of scientism, which elevates speculative metaphysics and mystery rituals on the basis of scientific-sounding but untested suppositions."

from The Cult of Covidism Has Invaded the Church

by Fay Voshell, American Thinker, October 2020

[DMD13]

Spot on!