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Sharkie
Feb 4, 2013

by Fluffdaddy

TheOtherContraGuy posted:

I have to admit, as a leftie who likes Graeber, I think he's really off base with this one. The issue is not too few publications, but too many.
http://blogs.nature.com/news/2014/05/global-scientific-output-doubles-every-nine-years.html

The biological sciences are going through a new golden age and the fact that he dismisses the importance of the Human Genome Project with a single sentence shows a profound ignorance of the field.

There's also this statement:

quote:

Even more, the hype and political investment surrounding such projects demonstrate the degree to which even basic research now seems to be driven by political, administrative, and marketing imperatives that make it unlikely anything revolutionary will happen.

which describes how science has been done for the past few centuries as if it's a dire new development.

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