3) seriousness can't be measured as the short term money you can make
directly selling your work. I understand that you think that
researchers are paid just to play writing useless papers for themself.
But there are not more stupid than others, and maybe they think they
are doing something useful, even if it can't be measured by the direct
sell of what they produce.
I think UCT is an major new idea. Like Alpha-Beta.
I am not at all against scientific work or papers. I have myself written
some of them and even succeeded to place one in the Journal of the American
Statistical Association. And I also understand, that everybody has to
present his work as very important. Otherwise other people who are better in
this respect get the funds. And one can do only a good work, if one really
believes in this. A classical quote from the German scientist Max Weber is:
To be a good scientist one has to write every sentence as if the existence
of the world depends on this sentence. (Although one of course knows that
this is usually not the case).
But science, the science world, is also a very closed world and there is a
tendency for l'art pour l'art. I am just critizing this aspect.
Chrilly
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