2023/01/20

New Study Shows Major Scientific Breakthroughs Are (Increasingly) Few and Far Between

● 20/01/2023
“The whole apparatus has become extremely conservative in trying to encourage accountability and concrete results. We don’t want to do blue sky research.”
– Science journalist William J. Broad, distilling the findings of “Papers and Patents Are Becoming Less Disruptive over Time,” a recent Nature study by Michael Park, Erin Leahey, and Russell J. Funk that quantifies how scientific leaps forward are occurring less frequently with each passing decade
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