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The speed of science - Works in Progress

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Critics of scientific reform maintain that transparency comes at the cost of speed.

The 21st century has seen some phenomenal advances in our ability to make scientific discoveries. Scientists have developed new technology to build vaccines swiftly, new algorithms to predict the structure of proteins accurately, new equipment to sequence DNA rapidly, and new engineering solutions to harvest energy efficiently. But in many fields of science, reliable knowledge and progress advance staggeringly slowly . What slows it down? And what can we learn from individual fields of science to pick up the pace across the board – without compromising on quality? By and large, scientific rese

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