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Earlier this year I was exploring a web3 industry 4.0 open science solution rethinking how research is performed, by who (or what), skills required, deliverables (no journals needed), a semantic knowledge base of results good & bad, validated through repetition, a framework for how experiments are managed.

Here's my research on the 'Challenges facing Academic Research' - https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVOkNfljM=/?share_link_id=58427...

Quotes that I found important:

"It discourages rigorous research as it is difficult to obtain enough results for a paper (and hence progress) in two to three years.

The constant stress drives otherwise talented and intelligent people out of science also."

- Anonymous

"End the PhD or drastically change it. there is a high level of depression among phd students. long hours, limited career prospects, and low wages contribute to this emotion."

- Don Gibson, Scientist at BioConsortia

Funding "affects what we study, what we publish, the risks we (frequently don't) take, it nudges us to emphasise safe, predictable (read: fundable) science"

- Gary Bennett - Neuroscientist at Duke University

"We need to recognise academic journals for what they are: shop windows for incomplete descriptions of research, that make semi-arbitrary editorial [judgments] about what to publish and often have harmful policies that restrict access to important post-publication critical appraisal of published research." —Ben Goldacre, The Datalab, epidemiology researcher, physician, and author

"An estimated $200 billion - or the equivalent of 85% of global spending on research - is routinely wasted on poorly designed and redundant studies." - https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

"As much as 30% of the most influential original medical research papers turn out to be wrong or exaggerated." - https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/201218#COM...

"The BMJ found that one-third of university press releases contained either exaggerated claims of causation (when the study itself only suggested correlation), unwarranted implications about animal studies for people, or unfounded health advice." - https://www.vox.com/2014/12/10/7372921/health-journalism-sci...