All of the discussion about ‘the best scientist’ has been in pursuit of one goal: to figure out the best [1] way to fund scientists. Continue reading
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Choosing ‘the best scientist’ requires a roadmap to the science of tomorrow (Part 2)
In my first post in this three-part series on the biomedical system, I discussed the fundamental flaw in using ‘the best’ indiscriminately, without acknowledging that, more often than not, there is no universal, Platonic ideal. In this post, I’m going to explore how choosing our ranking system requires a deeper conversation about where it is that we, as a scientific community, want to be in twenty or thirty years.[1] Continue reading