aljaz on Nostr: lots of this stems from how "science" works nowadays. Academia is an industry that ...

lots of this stems from how "science" works nowadays. Academia is an industry that produces publications and brainwashed drones not novel research. At least not as primary output.

Focusing on being published and securing more funding, of reviewing enough papers that someone else will review yours etc, there is soo much bullshit in the real of scientific research because again we've left things to take the turn for the worst and now everyone needs permission to do everything and governmental approved funding.

noones priority is reproducible research because the researchers are usually light years removed from practical application of said research. Because only the big corporations have the resources to fight/bribe/buy/outlast the slow destruction of human spirit by the governments.

Imagine you discover a brilliant new way to cure cancer. You have no hopes of ever getting anything out of it unless you sell the idea to a big pharma company. Imagine if you could focus on good research with reproducible data, have established pipelines where other researchers could easily repeat your experiments or expand on them. Data and process is open source.
You can organize animal/human testing because surely there is a line of cancer patients on their death beds that would love to try something that might save them despite not being approved by the latest fat cat sitting in the right chair.
You don't need FDA approvals and kickbacks. You can contract small labs that can exist because governments should fuck off and leave everyone to do what they want, make a partnership with them and start producing small batches, partner with clinic or doctors etc.

At the same time other small labs around the world might pop up doing the same. Because everyone can make money out of it on small scale. And plenty of it, just not enough to create another global world dominating future shaping extension of government conglomerate. Because you don't need that insanely big monstrosity with layers of yes men, endless amounts of lawyers and paper pushers just to fight every jurisdiction, to bribe every politician, to try to insert yourself into everyones lives to sustain your growth.

No, you can operate as a small business, unencumbered by the tyranny of the state.

If you remove the coercion out of any problem all of the sudden things become much easier.