Innovation in science has slowed to a crawl

Hotair.com ^ | 1-6-23 | David Strom

[rxh4n1]

Here is the pull quote:
“The researchers suggest federal agencies could implement funding changes to better support scholars’ long-term careers.”

[The Great RJ]

I can imagine several explanations. First, science has gone woke so any discoveries by white men or Asians is racist and furthers white privilege. Second, anything that might remotely question the dogma of climate change cannot be published. Lastly science is based on seeking truth, using the scientific method and is based on discoveries of white men so all science is racist.

[dirtymac]

Of course. Everything is settled science and therefore cannot be changed.

IT IS SETTLED SCIENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MeganC]

The problem is that consensus has replaced science.

[amihow]

Post modern science which disdains the historical scientific method as patriarchal has taken over all the sciences and especially medicine. It throws every theory fantasy and questionable study of ten to a group of scientists where consensus determines the truth (or best evidence).

[NorthMountain]

I challenge everyone posting on this thread to include their fields of scientific expertise, and how long they have been working in that field.

Me: physics and electrical engineering, > 30 years in industry.

IMO, the fellow who commented that the “low hanging fruit” had been taken is on the right track. The hundred years from 1870 to 1970, and all the discoveries made then, were historically very unusual. We should not be surprised to find the pace of “breakthrough” discovery slowing. All the “woke” crap and pseudoscience doesn’t help, but we still shouldn’t expect a historically unusual period to continue indefinitely.

And no, that doesn’t mean I think we’ve discovered everything and the patent office should be closed. The person upthread who asked about that should stop being absurd.

[Alas Babylon!]

Hey, didn’t the Algore crowd tell us they had reached scientific consensus?

I mean 97% of the scientist agreed, no?

And then they said “Trust the science” and Fauci said he himself was science.

Woke politics will end humanity.

[D Rider]

Science by consensus does not allow falsification. Thus science is dead.

[sauropod]

bkmk

[billakay]

I disagree. Communists LOVE innovation, especially when they can tout it as part of the superiority of their system. However, the system is antithetical to human nature in that it removes most rewards for competition (no ability to get patents, or profit from your innovation), so innovation tends to slow to a trickle. In other words, it is not an explicit feature of the system, but rather a huge bug.

The exception seems to be when there is EXTERNAL competition, such as in the case of the USA/USSR space race. Here, competitive human nature is awakened and progress is made.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Boy are they going to be surprised when the med beds roll out. 😆

[DeweyCA]

A very intelligent and helpful insight. Thank you. The onset of the scientific method led to a rapid discovery of many of the laws of nature that were most easily discoverable. That rate of discovery is unlikely unless a new type of method (akin to the scientific method), or a new type of means of discovering, is discovered. Of course, as you properly stated, the wokeness that has invaded science is also going to have a very deleterious effect.