• Optional@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Necessary evils, such as committee meetings, vs. runaway political madness suppressing actual work.

    The former is implied by organization, the latter is more prevalent than ever in the state of modern science (because money).

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      5 months ago

      Are committee meetings immune to runaway political madness? Who’s on the committee? How does the committee make decisions? Can those decisions be revisited?

      I’m not convinced that today’s state of science is any different than in eras past, tracing all the way back to kings and wealthy patrons throwing their political and economic might behind their preferred scientific endeavors.