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This essay presents a critical response to the current scientific landscape, which is characterized by the influence of various stakeholders, leading to an unsustainable, ineffective, and expensive model of scientific research. To address these issues, the essay argues that by promoting collaboration and transparency and modifying the balance of power among stakeholders, a more equitable, effective, and sustainable scientific landscape can be created.
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I have a different take. We see stake holders because some of the research priorities to be finalized are so hard to do. Case in point, the HIGGS BOSON. For decades this was the Ahab, and the great While Whale hunt and it took DECADES before Dr. Higg's model being examined in CERN lead to its celebrated findings. Even now. there are Higgs hunting safaris as to if the Higgs is standard Model derived, or exotic physics.
However there is yet another worrisome trend. In the early 1990s Bill Clinton killed the Texas based super collider, which would have rivaled CERN. This super collider would have had benefits as far as a check and contrast to CERN. In the sake of at times insane economizing, we are in many scientific mega projects building stand alone giant facilities with their intricate research hierarchies.
In a word, the bloat in this is in huge facilities like CERN with few rivals as to cross checking. As an example the Fermi data sets hinted directly at the Higgs, but when Fermi was partly decommissioned, it took YEARS before some of the signal analysis of the signals were dredged up as a partial comparison as to the Higgs experiment in CERN.
Needless to say, overly centralized facilities, with few rivals, are ALSO a problem area which needs to be addressed