Posted on 01/05/2023 5:19:05 PM PST by Rummyfan
The rate of ground-breaking scientific discoveries and technological innovation is slowing down despite an ever-growing amount of knowledge, according to an analysis released Wednesday of millions of research papers and patents.
While previous research has shown downturns in individual disciplines, the study is the first that "emphatically, convincingly documents this decline of disruptiveness across all major fields of science and technology," lead author Michael Park told AFP.
Park, a doctoral student at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management, called disruptive discoveries those that "break away from existing ideas" and "push the whole scientific field into new territory."
The researchers gave a "disruptiveness score" to 45 million scientific papers dating from 1945 to 2010, and to 3.9 million US-based patents from 1976 to 2010.
From the start of those time ranges, research papers and patents have been increasingly likely to consolidate or build upon previous knowledge, according to results published in the journal Nature.
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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.”
Peer review.
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.
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.
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.
STEM is going woke.
Bureaucratized and politicized. “Science” has sold out for easy taxpayer bucks.
Witness GlobalClimateWarmingChange science for a premiere example of political horse dookie.
We are not free to discuss the woke elephant in the room.
Science: modern def: politicizing of research for personal and monetary gain at the expense of true knowledge and the betterment of society.
So sad that downfall just so happened to coincidentally coincide with affirmative action and wokeism in STEM
The 900 pound gorilla agrees with you.
A modern American version of Lysenkoism.
At least we have more women and minorities in STEM fields…
Either everything that can be learned HAS been learned or we aren’t capable of learning anything more.
Science is DIEing, and the Woke don’t know why?
"I F'ing Love" has replaced science.
Quotas for blacks and women in STEM.
Spot on!
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