We will only publish one research article this year. This is the one!
Glyn Johns' testimony about Let it be closely matches the story told in Peter Jackson's Get Back
β€œ[…] instead of Americans earning money via creating manufactured goods that people want, the American government prints money, gives the money to politically favored corporations, bureaucrats, and workers, who then export the dollars in return for cheap HDTV’s.”
β€œMany studies have documented a decreasing risk tolerance in scientific research. A core driver has been the dominance of citation-driven metrics to evaluate, fund, and promote scientific research β€” a process that parallels the ever-increasing bureaucratization of science itself (interestingly, as measured by the increase of academic administration staff, the onset of this trend coincides with the first safetyism conferences that were held in the 1970s). Citations have become the decisive factor in publications, grant-making, and tenure. Consequently, as crowded scientific fields attract the most citations, high-risk, exploratory science, in turn, gets less attention and funding. And, in addition to the risk aversion of scientists, ethics committees, peer reviewers, and commissions are now slowing down scientific progress. This scientific risk aversion, coupled with the increase in bureaucratization, helps explain why scientific productivity has been significantly declining over the past decades." Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber on the dangers of safetyism in science