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[posic]

на старое обсуждение известной статьи о том, как плохо быть ученым -- http://wealth.livejournal.com/324211.html

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Well, averaging the body temperatures of patients over the hospital is not so illuminating either. The actual information cannot be just gotten from somewhere; one would have to read serious studies of the issues involved and/or study them seriously for oneself.

I, personally, think that Greenspun is largely right, even if not necessarily accurate with the statistics. Some scientists are like kids who never grow up. A lot of [others] are irrational, romantic, and stubborn. Educational repressions are producing traumatized people, some of which strive to become scientists as a way of escaping life.

A government-financed enterprise can be comfortable to be in for a little time, but it cannot remain so for long. The progress of knowledge itself is slowing down. To many scientists, too few ideas. Problems are being solved without the understanding of the subjects getting improved. Another half-century or century of such development, and there will be nothing to do there in science.