
The end of our 50-year stagnation | Tyler Cowen
The TED Interview
Is It a Significance of Diversity in Science?
The tyranny of scientific publication, where papers can't traditionally be published until they've been peereviewed, which again, puts in oftena many months delay between research break through and final publication. That to some extent, that got broken by the pandemic,. because of the sense of urgency that people were publishing stuff that was labelled as not yet peer reviewed. Is that a significant development? And does that spread into other areas of scientific advance? That is significant. It has earlier s, of course. And i think the general lesson is, in scientific institutions, we simply need more diversity. More diversity for choosing who gets into a programme, more diversity for choosing what gets put into a