Science incorporated a business model. Biotech alone has become a multi-million dollar industry, and it's bleeding into how all science whether basic, clinical, modular are being pushed, funded, and reported on. +
The invasion of business started around the early 90s as tech really ramped up. It hit it's running legs around mid-aughts and the entire sector is now an industry. Basic science which at it's core is novel discovery was good at swating away the business pervasion...+
But it became ensnared in the mostly unethical reporting model of a business. Over hype, over promise and no ability to deliver. Because like it or not, the scientific method itself is solid. It's what's keeping the whole science schtick together even by a thread.
So go back to academia. That arena of novel research use to be insulated from these types of things. But as techs tentacles stretched further out and down, tech absolutely needed to develop new and better technology for even basic tasks that weren't in need of an upgrade. +
So you now have academic institutions bending and flexing to allow million dollar medical and tech companies come into their tiny labs, and become ancillary support and rushing novel discoveries which actually slows down the ability to review and replicate appropriately.
So the entire chain is congested with novel useless discoveries. That even the initial lab can't replicate. It's a wild stalwart. But you have people thinking we're a half step away from making mice-humans. And... It's still in the basic science phase. It's nuts.
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