@brigrammer @TheMadPirate @Humpleupagus @Frondeur Indeed, and hilariously, the science backs this up. :smug10:
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10864468/

And the constant grant writing olympics is a hard science problem often even moreso than for soft sciences. It's way before we even start talking about ideologs and institutional capture (which is rapidly becoming a hard science problem due to the politics of the grant process, but that's a very long discussion).