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A clearly written essay, encompassing a broad scope of aspects, thank you!
I enjoyed engaging with your points, and these point to a theme that is becoming more and more unavoidable in commentaries about our scientific project, from these essays to various monographs. Here are some of my comments:
Inclusion and diversity: Right - the greater the number of viewpoints, the better refinement we get on the way to the truth. Opening up dialectic is crucial to avoid individual and group bias.
• Encourage creativity and risk-taking: Absolutely. In fact, Sabine Hossenfelder says something similar in her "Lost in Maths."
• Embrace uncertainty: Recognize that scientific research involves a degree of uncertainty
and that it is okay not to have all the answers. Ditto. Failure to embrace null results, or to be influenced by non-empirical influences like grant distribution is a failure of the scientific method.
• Engage in constructive criticism: Encourage scientists to engage in constructive criticism
of each other's ideas while also being open to receiving criticism themselves. Again, Hossenfelder absolutely agrees with you on this. You've hit the nail on the head.
• Facilitate collaboration: Encourage scientists to work together on research projects, both
within and across institutions. Again, yes! Not doing so is a sure sign of individual bias, or group bias. Such biases are fatal to objectivity in the sciences.
• Be open to new approaches: Be open to new approaches to scientific research, including
interdisciplinary collaboration, new technologies, and emerging research fields. I address similar points in my own essay, and what you've pointed out here is an important means to address the general bias which lead to stagnation and decline.