{"id":20120,"date":"2022-06-24T08:45:06","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T06:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=20120"},"modified":"2022-08-02T09:28:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T07:28:52","slug":"allergy-research-waste-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2022\/06\/allergy-research-waste-of-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Allergy research &#8211; waste of time?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/jit-team\/why-academic-research-in-ai-is-a-total-waste-of-time-211cbc63d1d8\">A waste of time<\/a> &#8211; has been said about other fields but applies to allergy research also when reading the review request of &#8220;Allergy&#8221; today. I have to keep the content confidential but not the comment of\u00a0 AI expert Jeremy Howard<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s a problem in science in general. Scientists need to be published which means they need to work on things that their peers are extremely familiar with and can recognize an advance in that area. So, that means that they all need to work on the same thing. The thing they work on\u2026 there\u2019s nothing to encourage them to work on things that are practically useful so you get just a whole lot of research which is minor advances and stuff that\u2019s been very highly studied and has no significant practical impact.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 21.05.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A waste of time &#8211; has been said about other fields but applies to allergy research also when reading the review request of &#8220;Allergy&#8221; today. I have to keep the content confidential but not the comment of\u00a0 AI expert Jeremy Howard It\u2019s a problem in science in general. Scientists need to be published which means &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2022\/06\/allergy-research-waste-of-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Allergy research &#8211; waste of time?<\/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":[8,5],"tags":[3358,1995],"class_list":["post-20120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asthma-allergy","category-philosophy-of-science","tag-ai","tag-algorithm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20120","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=20120"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20193,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20120\/revisions\/20193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}