Stop worry about China already!
Konstantin Kakaes tells us to chill out and stop worrying about Chinese science: The bible of the competitiveness crowd is a National Academy of Sciences report...
Category: Economics
More sloppy thinking on DOD-funded research
I’m sure that Matt Yglesias has forgotten more economics in the past hour than I will ever know. And yet, he believes that “if spending on military ...
Sloppy thinking on DOD-funded research
Several liberal bloggers protested the Times suggestion that cutting the Defense budget will reduce innovation. While some of their points are well-taken (the D...
Fostering Innovation
Another quick link to another blog. Check out Financial Times columnist Tim Hartford calling for more experimentation and risk-taking: I think our system for pr...
Ideas are overrated
Light blogging week this week. But check out Farhad Manjoo, who insists that Mark Zuckerberg, not anyone else, invented Facebook and deserves the credit. I̵...
The Chinese (and Indians) are taking over!
Here’s David Rothkopf at Foreign Policy parroting the standard (and careless) meme that there is a simple, straightforward link between scientific product...
Economics and the demarcation distraction
A few days ago several bloggers felt it necessary to discuss the scientific status of economics (see Ryan Avent, Adam Ozimek, Matt Yglesias, and Jim Manzi). Aft...
Discovery is not a synonym for innovation
My last post discussed Lehrer’s column on the increased difficulty of making scientific discoveries. Lehrer should have stuck with that topic alone instea...
The slowdown of meaningful discovery
Jonah Lehrer has again written a provacative piece, arguing that growing collaboration and teamwork among scientists is a response to “all the low-hanging...
Science of science measurement
I should have linked to this earlier, but here’s the webcast and white papers from a 2-day NSF workshop on the science of science measurement. Rush Holt&#...