(examiner.com): The practice of science does not seem to be delivering much of what society needs and expects from science these days. We are getting mountains of scientific papers and patent applications, but more restrictions slapped on the use of intellectual property, not enough women in science, fragmented disciplines that don't communicate with each other, and cases such as found in climatology where paleoclimatologists with no training in statistics try and do brand new statistical methods for analysing data, and others with no software development training writing key software applications and still others who have never run a data warehouse try to shoehorn that in to their already full schedules. Journals still work on a century-old timeline, self-appointed saints and scoundrels take it upon themselves to communicate 'what it all means' to a puzzled public, and the process appears tainted by the grubby hunt for funding.
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