The decision makers will make their decisions without our input and garbage methodology will dominate if management wants it to.

Will it fall though? Agile is also profoundly not good, but it seems to dominate how software is "engineered" these days.

The best proteins structure predictors (not to mention so much other research) are totally dependent upon HMMER and hhblitz. Loss of either one is a heavy blow.

17. One might know all of this if one studied the ways that misinformation spreads and how the norms and institutions of science limit that spread so effectively. It's something I've worked on for years.

Sadly, as of today, this sort of work not longer "effectuates NSF's priorities."

I wonder why.

16. Between the decentralization and the incentives for researchers to upend the status quo, the sorts of conspiratorial fantasies that persist in the anti-science right are simply impossible. No one has the power to say "Hey, I want to you suppress this result" and have that stick across science.

The only curiosity here is "how do I get a paper from this?". That's all.