[heydemo]

Market pressures can have a corrupting influence on many human endeavors, but to say "capitalism is ruining science" is incredibly reductive.

Capitalist countries, such as the US and western Europe, have had an outsized contribution to scientific endeavor, winning more than their share of Nobel prizes.

This is probably because investment in scientific research depends on a level of material prosperity that wasn't achieved in the USSR and communist China. Centrally planned economies tend to be so corrupt that researchers may have bigger issues to navigate than "publish or perish."

Jacobin takes a reasonable point (marketization can have a corrupting influence), dials up the stakes hyperbolically ("a new dark age!"), and pins it on its favorite bogeyman – "capitalism" – an amorphous, nefarious scourge (it's not clear what level of socialism we need to adopt to avert the new dark ages.)

Seems like a more reasonable take would just be to increase public funding to scientific research.

[badinsie]

i think its a fair statement. just take a look at Pons & Fleischmanns' Cold Fusion... everyone thinks Cold Fusion is fake and/or conspiracy theory. the average person will laugh at you and say its fake science etc etc. IMO there was a major effort to silence and discredit Pons & Fleischmann. lots of wealthy people that would not want free clean abundant energy. but then today... NASA has some "new technology" called 'Lattice Confinement Fusion' that is "many years away" but is identical to the 'Cold Fusion' phenomenon ?!?!?!