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Research in Crisis - Blueprint to Overhaul the Broken Knowledge Factory (Paperback)
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Research in Crisis - Blueprint to Overhaul the Broken Knowledge Factory (Paperback)
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This book explores the weak explanatory and predictive power of
theories across disciplines, explains reasons for limited expertise
after centuries of scientific effort, and sets forth strategies to
accelerate knowledge and manage a future we can only dimly
comprehend. Gaps in knowledge arose because common, natural and
artificial phenomena are fundamentally hard to understand, and in
expertise persists because research is unproductive. This book
argues that weak research comes with huge opportunity cost because
it stymies optimum decision making by government, corporations and
individuals. Research needs restructuring which must come from
governments' top down requirement that funding bodies foster
applied research with real-world impact, and that universities
influence scientific publishers to improve their publications'
integrity. This book seeks to catalyse extinction events for
theories in most disciplines, which would clear a path for solving
multiple crises in research. The author cautions that this process
would be disruptive, unpopular and painful.
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