Re: modern science = underfunded projects


drocillo wrote:

This also means that younger scientists on large will not be able to
obtain professional skills because doing underfunded projects does not
put them to work with the real equipment and they do not solve the real
problems. The fraction of computer modellers in science will increase
(though even now it is too much).

The number of the scientists who possess the true skills will be very
small, and their value will go up. The salary for the people who were
exposed to the real-funded projects will go up to stratospheric
heights. So... people on this newsgroup talked a lot that the labour of
scientists is not respected and is not paid well... here is the good
news...

Is this a true trend, or I am just imagining unexciting things ?


Well, it only demonstrates how non-linear the life is. It is perfectly
correct to say that the number of the scientists who possess the true
skills is going down. But at the same time their value (and salaries)
is going down as well. The reason? Underfunded projects. There are
couple of ways to complete underfunded project successfully : you can
steal the funds from somebody else or you can cheat about the results.
Therefore, the value of those who can do one of the above or preferably
both is what is going up. Who the hell needs true skills if they are
not the winning point? Young scientists naturally learn the skills and
win the competition for faculty positions and teach the same. That is
why my beloved science looks like a big swamp of *** with some small
disconnected islands.

Old Pif

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