Modern science has become a huge bureaucracy with financial incentives that favor conformity; money flows to researchers who 'toe the party line' and 'do more of what everyone else is doing,' making it extremely difficult to break out and see or do something different within a 'sclerotic hierarchy' like 'the middle of an enormous Byzantine civil service.'
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Iain McGilchristEvidence Quote
“what has really happened is there's something much less glamorous has happened in science which is simply that it's become a huge bureaucracy it has money to spend which it which follows people who tow the party in line do more of what everyone else is doing and it's very difficult in this sclerotic hierarchy”
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