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Collegiality and careerism trump critical questions and bold new ideas: A student's perspective and solution
Author(s) -
Nicholson Joshua M.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
bioessays
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.175
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1521-1878
pISSN - 0265-9247
DOI - 10.1002/bies.201200001
Subject(s) - mainstream , restructuring , collegiality , perspective (graphical) , political science , sociology , epistemology , engineering ethics , law , philosophy , computer science , engineering , artificial intelligence
Funding agencies (and journals) seem to be discriminating against ideas that are contrary to the mainstream, leading to leading to the preferential funding of predictable and safe research over radically new ideas. To remedy this problem a restructuring of the scientific funding system is needed, e.g. by utilizing laymen ‐ together with scientists ‐ to evaluate grant proposals.