Weatherman2020
Diamond Member
I have a friend who’s one of the leading researchers in black holes. She says the biggest problem with her field is fighting the narrative to obtain funding. Nothing to do with political outcomes in her field, but so much of science is guided by having a predetermined outcome that fits the narrative.
Climate change is a gravy train for a lot of people who just enjoy spinning a narrative just to get wealthy.
This researcher no longer works in academia so felt free to discuss this.
“Feeding the narrative? Check. Editorial bias? Check.Top-down political influence on science? Double check. Bloated Academia competing too hard for too few dollars and openings? Check, at least to a degree. Ironically, that makes the Academia-Media nexus the least interesting part of Brown’s essay, but it’s still plenty interesting — and important, too.”

I Left Out the Full Truth to Get My Climate Change Paper Published
I just got published in Nature because I stuck to a narrative I knew the editors would like. That’s not the way science should work.
