{"id":17280,"date":"2020-09-29T05:15:36","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T05:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=17280"},"modified":"2021-01-07T17:38:05","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T17:38:05","slug":"humility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2020\/09\/humility\/","title":{"rendered":"Humility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am surrounded by people who published close to or more than 500 papers, who have a super high Hirsch factor of bigger than 100, who have had third party funding more than 10 mill, who get prices that I have never heard before.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists who spend their life in first class plane seats but not in the lab, who spend their night in expensive hotels while their postdocs do all the work. Scientists at broadcasted talk shows who haven&#8217;t read a paper from start to finish for years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguin.co.uk\/books\/111\/1117290\/science-fictions\/9781847925657.html\">Ritchie &#8220;Science Fictions&#8221; 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In \u2029fact, \u2029the \u2029way \u2029academic \u2029research \u2029is \u2029currently\u2029 set \u2029up \u2029incentivises these\u2029 problems,\u2029 encouraging\u2029 researchers\u2029 to\u2029 obsess\u2029 about\u2029 prestige,\u2029 fame, funding\u2029 and\u2029 reputation\u2029 at\u2029 the\u2029 expense\u2029 of\u2029 rigorous,\u2029 reliable\u2029 results.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For true science the only way is to accept our incapability, our disability and our powerlessness. As @DrTedros said yesterday<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrTedros\/status\/1310305511854747650\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-17285\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/tweet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"335\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/careers\/2020\/09\/bond-fellow-grad-students-we-shared-our-failures\">Standard is Failure<\/a> not Success&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/polymerreaction\/status\/1343012093801365504\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-17880\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/x.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"338\" height=\"186\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 20.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am surrounded by people who published close to or more than 500 papers, who have a super high Hirsch factor of bigger than 100, who have had third party funding more than 10 mill, who get prices that I have never heard before. Scientists who spend their life in first class plane seats but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2020\/09\/humility\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Humility<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3390,2904],"class_list":["post-17280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science","tag-corona","tag-humility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17280"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17881,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17280\/revisions\/17881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}