Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedJessica Wade: belief
5 Apr 2023 Conversations with Tyler Jessica Wade on Chiral Materials, Open Knowledge, and Representation in STEM
“I would say we’re still at risk there of creating these little empires, where certain people get huge amounts of scientific funding, and other people don’t have that opportunity and that seat at the table.”
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- Jessica Wade
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- 5 Apr 2023
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Stuart Buck has argued we should fund basically people, not projects, in most areas. The Arc Institute in California, connected to Stanford, has more or less that approach. Do you agree, disagree? I think it can be absolutely fantastic and transformative, especially in things that are clinically relevant. Having these amazing institutes where you’ve got clinicians working with basic research scientists and computer scientists and analysts — fantastic. I would say we’re still at risk there of creating these little empires, where certain people get huge amounts of scientific funding, and other people don’t have that opportunity and that seat at the table. So sure, fund people, but make sure that we’re representing an equal and fair in the decisions of who we fund. But isn’t fairness overrated in the sense that there’s meritocracy and there’s fairness, and there’s some tension between the two? Why always side with fairness?…
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