Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit

18. August 2011 von Laborjournal

In Berlin hat eine Gruppe von Forschern die „Slow Science Academy“ gegründet. Ihr Anliegen: Durch eine Entschleunigung der Forschung Sorgfalt und Qualität zu steigern sowie Fehler und Fehlverhalten zu minimieren.

In ihrem Manifest schreibt die Akademie:

We are scientists. We don’t blog. We don’t twitter. We take our time.

Don’t get us wrong—we do say yes to the accelerated science of the early 21st century. We say yes to the constant flow of peer-review journal publications and their impact; we say yes to science blogs and media & PR necessities; we say yes to increasing specialization and diversification in all disciplines. We also say yes to research feeding back into health care and future prosperity. All of us are in this game, too.

However, we maintain that this cannot be all. Science needs time to think. Science needs time to read, and time to fail. Science does not always know what it might be at right now. Diesen Beitrag weiterlesen »