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by privong·12y ago·view on hn ↗
> But in every field, the incentives are not set up to do good science. That's a fact, and until it's understood there won't be any progress. Until then, you'll just see a slow grind of academia eating itself.

I think this depends on what you mean by "doing good science". I agree that incentives in every field are not set up to do the _best_ science, but in many fields the incentives are not such that people are drawn to doing _bad_ science. So if academia is "eating itself", I don't think it can be universally attributed to incentives regarding good vs bad science.

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No, it's the same in every field, because the process of getting tenure in about every field is the same: publish lots of times. "Lots" might be different in different fields, but it still comes down to "publish a lot." Publishing a lot is actually a lot closer to incentivizing bad science than not.

I'd encourage you to look past your pre-existing notions of what makes a "hard" science branch and actually talk to people who are the boots on the ground about what is really going on in academia.