Science-mart
by Philip Mirowski · first published 2011
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This trenchant study analyzes the rise and decline in the quality and format of science in America since World War II. During the Cold War, the U.S. government amply funded basic research in science and medicine. Starting in the 1980s, however, this support began to decline and for-profit corporations became the largest funders of research. Philip Mirowski argues that a powerful neoliberal ideology promoted a radically different view of knowledge and discovery: the fruits of scientific investigation are not a public good that should be freely available to all, but are commodities that could be
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…Phase II trials are done...in China/India. The evidence that these studies are largely faked due to the pressure put on the staff and management there has been piling up for years. I would recommend “Science Mart: Privatizing American Science” by Philip Mirowski for more on this.
on “Biopharma has abandoned antibiotic development” ↗I encourage everyone here to read the book Science-mart by Mirowski. It reveals a lot of limitations of adding markets and the search for "efficiency" in science.
on “Please Fund More Science” ↗Science Mart by Philip Mirowski does a good job of laying out, for those in research but also for those who are not, the political-economic changes that are responsible for this.
on “The decline of unfettered research (1995)” ↗…put a lot of effort into it. Let me add one more point, and see if what I said merges with what you said. If not I'm completely wrong. A lot of books, like The Idea Industry by Daniel Drezner and also Science-Mart by Philip Mirowski say that the cutting of university budgets since the late 60's has led to such an undermining of their stability that Academics have had to engage in a stupid, pointless, survival battle…
on “Facing poverty, academics turn to sex work and sleeping in cars” ↗