Time, money, and attention are finite, yet output keeps growing. Hence the need for a lot of filtering. I wish there was an alternative, but I don't see any. Do journals reject quality work? Are geniuses passed up for promotion? Sure, but just giving some examples like Peter Higgs is hindsight bias.
e’ve got loads more scientists, and they publish way more papers. And yet science is less disruptive than ever, scientific productivity has been falling for decades, and scientists rate the discoveries of decades ago as worthier than the discoveries of today. (Reminder, if you want to blame this on ideas getting harder to find, I will fight you.
This can probably also be explained by low hanging fruit having been picked
e’ve got loads more scientists, and they publish way more papers. And yet science is less disruptive than ever, scientific productivity has been falling for decades, and scientists rate the discoveries of decades ago as worthier than the discoveries of today. (Reminder, if you want to blame this on ideas getting harder to find, I will fight you.
This can probably also be explained by low hanging fruit having been picked