>>12493677I disagree. Academia includes non-scientific disciplines and really, what I've witnessed being done here is plain waste of taxpayer's money.
>>12493695Unfortunately no. And I'd even say that without the reproducibility crisis. From experience, most grant applications are complete bullshit and the institutes barely deliver on the promises.
Publishing is super important, hence, every miniscule thing gets published. Sometimes not in a single paper but consecutive ones to reap in more citations.
Negative results are pretty much never published. Say for example you perform an experiment on animals (im involved in one experiment which uses 40000 mice over a period of 4 years). Results only get published if you found something. The consequence is that some other group with the same idea will repeat that experiment, killing 40000 more mice and more taxpayer money.
It's a shitshow from my perspective, really. On top of all that, education becomes rediculous. Easy topics, easy exams, so the university can get more money.
