PhilGoetz comments on What science needs - Less Wrong

42 Post author: PhilGoetz 02 December 2012 10:31PM

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 02 December 2012 11:12:42PM -1 points [-]

No. At least, they don't express concern about the points in this post.

Comment author: palladias 03 December 2012 04:16:24AM 6 points [-]

Selection effect. Interning in a big genetics lab and seeing some of these problems first hand is why I wasn't a science major.

Comment author: Zaine 02 December 2012 11:33:04PM 1 point [-]

Then I wonder how one could propose to a scientist an offer of effective management and be warmly received. Hefty financial compensation, combined with a noble and ambitious goal, that would end - after years and years of research and development - in potentially great monetary and reputational profits, perhaps?