Medical breakthroughs are becoming rarer unless you want to believe the next hype cycle in immunotherapy for cancer cure (and some eager testimonials). It works for some and for a vast majority, recurrences (and standard therapies) are far and few in-between. My senior peers (and colleagues) are inventing innovative ideas around survival without pushing for … Continue reading Scientific stagnation- part II →

I stumbled on this paper from a linked blog post (and is worth going through). I have not annotated it but summarized the key points. New ideas no longer fuel economic growth the way they once did. A popular explanation for stagnation is that good ideas are harder to find, rendering slowdown inevitable. We present a simple … Continue reading Stagnation in science →