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The current academic system produces (in small quantity of course) interesting science by chance and not by design. Local funding agencies only reward what's fashionable and are (mostly ) unable to fund anything new

Pursuing in academia is not smart at the individual lebel, that indeed expels a lot of talented individuals.

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That's why I got out during the first year of my PhD.

I had doubts that my field was actually ever going to solve the problem it was supposed to, and brought up the issue with one of my supervisors.

He took my analysis one step further and explained how the (very very slow) progress we appeared to be making was basically just sampling bias, but it didn't matter because the point of being in the a 3 year PhD program wasn't too discover anything but to go through the motions.

Nope!

If you ever feel like writing up your initial analysis or the longer version from your supervisor I’d love to read it and I’m sure others would too. Email in profile.

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