[IRTalk] Saving Science - The New Atlantis

[Hilton Gibson]

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cience, pride of modernity, our one source of objective knowledge, is in
deep trouble. Stoked by fifty years of growing public investments,
scientists are more productive than ever, pouring out millions of articles
in thousands of journals covering an ever-expanding array of fields and
phenomena. *But much of this supposed knowledge is turning out to be
contestable, unreliable, unusable, or flat-out wrong. *

http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/saving-science
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