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Is Science Stagnant? - The Atlantic

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Despite vast increases in the time and money spent on research, progress is barely keeping pace with the past. What went wrong?

The writer Stewart Brand once wrote that “science is the only news.” While news headlines are dominated by politics, the economy, and gossip, it’s science and technology that underpin much of the advance of human welfare and the long-term progress of our civilization. This is reflected in an extraordinary growth in public investment in science. Today, there are more scientists, more funding for science, and more scientific papers published than ever before: Data from Patrick Collison and Michael Nielsen On the surface, this is encouraging. But for all this increase in effort, are we getting a

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