Dreaded_Anomaly comments on Some Heuristics for Evaluating the Soundness of the Academic Mainstream in Unfamiliar Fields - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Dreaded_Anomaly 15 February 2011 04:05:20PM 6 points [-]

I am reminded of this recent article from the arXiv blog:

Biologists Ignoring Low-Hanging Fruit, Says Drug Discovery Study

Molecular biologists focus most of their attention on a small set of biomolecules, while ignoring the rest, according to a study of research patterns.

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