Yeah, this is a hugely important topic that is tough to appreciate from outside. I’m fond of this quote by Duncan Watts:
”For 20 years I thought my job was, as a basic scientist, publish papers and throw them over the wall for someone else to apply. I now realise that there’s no one on the other side of the wall. Just a huge pile of papers that we’ve all thrown over.”
The conventional wisdom is that, at least in the USA, you need a think tank apparatus that specializes in digesting academic literature and packaging it for policy-making. That’s one of the roles that the Institute for Progress plays on the metascience front. Also, this general topic is something I hope to look into more as a New Things Under the Sun post.
Yeah, this is a hugely important topic that is tough to appreciate from outside. I’m fond of this quote by Duncan Watts:
”For 20 years I thought my job was, as a basic scientist, publish papers and throw them over the wall for someone else to apply. I now realise that there’s no one on the other side of the wall. Just a huge pile of papers that we’ve all thrown over.”
The conventional wisdom is that, at least in the USA, you need a think tank apparatus that specializes in digesting academic literature and packaging it for policy-making. That’s one of the roles that the Institute for Progress plays on the metascience front. Also, this general topic is something I hope to look into more as a New Things Under the Sun post.
Excited that you’ll do some work on this, Matt—looking forward to reading it.