Science’s dead end – Prospect Magazine « Prospect Magazine
The best of times, and the worst of times for scientific research. A prodigious mass of data funded by burgeoning grant money is to a large degree failing to produce new blockbuster theories and disease cures/ treatments. More importantly for that "universal theory of everything," the predominant lines of inquiry have tended to value the "bulldozer" approach (the tried-and-true above independent thought), overly standardizing and subverting basic research to an industrial production of pharma and clinical applications, instead of science just for the sake of expanding our knowledge of ourselves and the universe. The result is hardly surpising. I don't see any quick solutions to improve this myopic approach to policy, unfortunately. The NIH establishment is far too conservative for science to progress toward solving the greatest questions of our 21st century - the functioning of the mind and the biomedical basis for our existence.
http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2010/07/sciences-dead-end/