&quot;the current system will destroy science&quot;<p>I&#x27;m uncertain about this. The scientific method can luckily not be destroyed, and I wonder whether the self-destruction of academia is a good or bad thing. It is certainly not painless and will certainly take innocent victims.<p>If you consider non-equilibrium thermodynamics analogies, the quicker the system destroys itself the better it is, as it more or less _has to_ explode before it reorganises.<p>In Finland it has started already, as universities are required to get part of their funding from industry, and it&#x27;s especially hard to accomplish in smaller cities.