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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Muslim outreach takes time away from science.
Scientism has replaced science!
Woke replaced science. Full stop.
bkmk
Exactly.
We know why. They know why. They just are continual liars.
Because our schools are ruined!!! We’re graduating idiots!!!
Exploring new frontiers is toxic masculinity.
Because they’re listening to the “Science is racist, white supremacist, even math and numbers are racist,” You little twerps should all grow up to be rappers because logical thinking is racist!!!!!!!!!!” crowd
Innovation and freedom go hand in hand.
Kids aren’t interested in becoming scientists. They’re too busy playing games on handheld devices, and learning about deviancy from their teachers. No encouragement on improving their intellect from this woke liberal government.
yep, because liberals decided that science could be “settled”
Just can’t figure it out. Maybe because science has become a cultic religion called “The Science”? Maybe that could have something to do with it?
Well....obviously more Diversity, Inclusion and Equity (DIE) is needed for scientific innovation to flourish.
Science today is opinion. After you run out of pre-determined opinions, you have no science.
Because scientists have become addicted to money
Because it’s all “settled science” now, which is in reality no science at all.
An ever growing amount of knowledge ? WHERE?
20 years of dumbing down of American students.
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