Competitive Science: Is Competition Ruining Science?

Competitive science: is competition ruining science?

Science has always been a competitive undertaking. Despite recognition of the benefits of cooperation and team science, reduced availability of funding and jobs has made science more competitive than ever. Here we consider the benefits of competition in providing incentives to scientists and the adverse effects of competition on resource sharing, research integrity, and creativity. The history ...

Correction for Fang and Casadevall, Competitive Science: Is Competition Ruining Science?

What is Ethics of Science and Technology?

Background: The existence of crises and problems such as non-compliance with standards and professional ethics in the field of engineering and technology, and existence of fraud and misuse in the field of science has resulted in importance of ethics in the science and technology. But the fact is that there is no accurate understanding of the ethics of science and technology, and this field is o...

Information Science Is Neither

(DRAFT—please do not cite or distribute) Introduction Information science isn't a science. Nor, even, is it primarily about information. To assert the former is no longer an especially controversial move. The skeptic might point to the supposed origins of the field in the postwar activities of communications engineers and applied computer scientists—many of whom, following Claude Shannon, under...

But is it science?

Early years science education is not science, but a curricular construction designed to induct young children into a range of ideas and practices related to the natural world. While inquiry-based learning is an important approach to this, it is not of itself unique to science and there are a range of logico-mathematical constructions that come closer to the essence of science. In this paper we ...