Comment by ahartmetz
4 days ago
I think the state could simply allocate money to long-lived scientific institutions and let the experts there handle things as long as there is no obvious corruption.
4 days ago
I think the state could simply allocate money to long-lived scientific institutions and let the experts there handle things as long as there is no obvious corruption.
Self-regulation has a tendency to either work well for a few years, then gradually become corrupted... or be corrupt from the beginning.
A distressingly high percentage of humans like zero-sum status games. More people are happier when status is recognized as a semi-unbounded positive-sum game.
What does "let the experts handle things" look like in practice that's much different to fakeable impact metrics such as citation count?
It doesn't foster bad publication practices (volume over quality).