Science is in trouble and it worries me.

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Innovation is slowing, research productivity is declining, scientific work is becoming more disruptive. In this video I summarize what we know about the problem and what possible causes have been proposed. I also explain why this matters so much to me.

Clarification to what I say at 3:10 -- As with the previous figure, the blue lines show the growth in the yield, see figure title and axis label. Sorry for expressing this so vaguely.

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00:00 Intro
00:33 Numbers
06:33 Causes
10:32 Speculations
16:25 Bullshit Research
22:06 Epilogue

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