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Death of Science

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According to Wikipedia definition, "Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe." Historically, the goal of science was shifted from "systematic search for The Truth" to "a systematic enterprise". PhD students and postdocs are the primary elements of this system and known in academic environment as a cheap research labour. For this reason, PhDs are overproduced and heavily exploited with continuously reducing chances of finding a descent job: PhD Overproduction
Science discredited itself as the institution for organising knowledge in a systematic way. The knowledge body as a system of all known practically significal concepts was never published. Being a systemic problem, the crisis of science cannot be resolved "in a scientific way". A new method of knowledge organisation must be developed by researchers not affected by (and ideally staying away from) the current processes in science as the enterprise.
... And that is not as difficult as we used to think about it.

Progressive summarization: Stanley McChrystal - Team of Teams

the real world is full of the knotted interdependencies of complexity, and science was not equipped to deal with this—indeed, science actively avoided these unpleasant truths, preferring to simplify things to fit the clockwork universe. Location: 1222
complexity has only grown denser as economies have globalized. The hacker attack on AP demonstrates that these nonlinear disturbances are becoming more likely. In the words of British sociologist John Urry, “when China gets a cold . . . the US sneezes.”* To extend the Lorenz butterfly metaphor, we seem, increasingly, to live in a world of hurricanes. Location: 1270
A predictive hubris, perhaps bred by centuries of success at applying Newtonian models to complicated problems, has fooled us into believing that with enough data and hard work, the complex riddles of economies can be decoded. Location: 1274

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PhD Overproduction

marketisation of universities

Peer Review isn't Working

Corporate Funding Corrupt Science

Project Success Factors

Crisis of Scientific Publications

Exaggerated Role of Analysis in Scientific Research

Reproducible Research becomes impossible

Most Published Research Findings Are False

Failure of Science to Address Global Problems