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The new WH science report's central contention is the Peter Thiel thesis that science has been stalled due to funding failure. But this completely misses that there might be more fundamental speed limits to science. John Horgan, author of "The End of Science" and I discussed the Thiel thesis and how science has inherently become more difficult as "easy" problems were solved early on. https://plus.flux.community/p/uncertainty-makes-science-powerful