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I really focused on statistical hypothesis testing during my graduate work and have had a really difficult time finding non-shit jobs anywhere in biology. This is in spite of being one of the few people on the daily that seems to even know how to generate a testable biology hypothesis and run the experiment to completion. Scientific incompetence seems like it's at an all-time high; to the point where I am preparing to check out of it. This is not an easy decision for me to make, having invested close to two decades in advanced math and biology, going as far as attaining a terminal degree in biomedical research.

When I reflect back on how I even got here, I think back to the foundational science and how great it all was. But thinking again, it was all mostly super brilliant White men just crushing every STEM field, for centuries. Somehow, it didn't seem this bad right after 2000 and the human genome project finished up. That shit was like a quantum leap for the biology field. So did the decline really start only in the past 10-15 years? Or was it more in the early 90's? All I know is I currently have a boss that's junior faculty on a tenure track that doesn't seem to have a fucking clue what is going, yet just reported bringing in like half a million dollars in grant funding. Like, is government subsidy really ruining science that fucking much when you can bring in half a mil and be doing absolute nonsense science?

2020 was really the year I feel like medical science and research was betrayed not only to the public by the higher ups, but also to those of us that still actually give a damn about high quality biomedical discoveries. Thanks for reading my little rant and I appreciate any thoughts about when and what, specifically, caused the decline in hard sciences. Obvious answers are 'dishonest kikery' and 'diversity shits getting pushed into the system without merit.'

I really focused on statistical hypothesis testing during my graduate work and have had a really difficult time finding non-shit jobs anywhere in biology. This is in spite of being one of the few people on the daily that seems to even know how to generate a testable biology hypothesis and run the experiment to completion. Scientific incompetence seems like it's at an all-time high; to the point where I am preparing to check out of it. This is not an easy decision for me to make, having invested close to two decades in advanced math and biology, going as far as attaining a terminal degree in biomedical research. When I reflect back on how I even got here, I think back to the foundational science and how great it all was. But thinking again, it was all mostly super brilliant White men just crushing every STEM field, for centuries. Somehow, it didn't seem this bad right after 2000 and the human genome project finished up. That shit was like a quantum leap for the biology field. So did the decline really start only in the past 10-15 years? Or was it more in the early 90's? All I know is I currently have a boss that's junior faculty on a tenure track that doesn't seem to have a fucking clue what is going, yet just reported bringing in like half a million dollars in grant funding. Like, is government subsidy really ruining science that fucking much when you can bring in half a mil and be doing absolute nonsense science? 2020 was really the year I feel like medical science and research was betrayed not only to the public by the higher ups, but also to those of us that still actually give a damn about high quality biomedical discoveries. Thanks for reading my little rant and I appreciate any thoughts about when and what, specifically, caused the decline in hard sciences. Obvious answers are 'dishonest kikery' and 'diversity shits getting pushed into the system without merit.'

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What is happening now is not science, it is scientism. Since you are expecting that is should be actual science, it will not make any sense to you (or perhaps you are already aware of this). They do not necessarily want to find the truth, or determine if their hypothesis is valid, they only want to create dogma that can be used by the "experts" to push forward a pre-determined "consensus".

The actual pursuit of real science has now been relegated to the dark alleyways and caves inhabited by creatures that they label "deniers". These modern day heretics against scientism dare to suppose that questioning the conclusions of the "experts" is open to them.

You have a choice. You can sell your soul and become a part of the church of scientism. You will then be able to receive grant money, so long as you come to the "correct" conclusions. Or, you can maintain your dignity and continue the pursuit of real science without reward, and likely with ridicule and scorn heaped upon you by the "scientists". Particularly so if you have a decent understanding of statistics and can easily see through the "novel statistical approaches" that are often used to twist inadequate data to meet the pre-determined conculsions.

As to when this happened, I think it's tied in with the post modernists, which comes out of the Frankfurt School, so the roots of it go back to the early 20th century. However, it's really been accelerating in the last 20 years or so.