Our brutal science system almost cost us a pioneer of mRNA vaccines
This is probably going to be unpopular on this forum, but why is everyone assuming that having more researchers is desirable / needed in the first place?I think scientific research is completely bloated already and there's no need to provide work for even more researchers who will either (1) research an already popular subject where ever growing funding yields ever disminishing returns or (2) research an utterly futile subject that serves no purpose beside justifying the researcher's salary.