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[-] Candelestine@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

tbf, I've always loved the truth-seeking behavior at the heart of interdisciplinary academic squabbles about which science is more scientific than which other ones.

Leads to further pressures to improve methodology via cross-pollination anyway.

Though it does get out of hand sometimes. But in an environment with enough competitive young people, I think things getting out of hand on occasion is more or less inevitable, so whatever.

Of course, it's my own training in certain skillsets that makes me prefer this view.

[-] tdawg@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

It's kinda baffaling to me that we don't encourage more hybrid degrees for scientific reaearch. Like even if it was just 10% of the field that seems highly valuable

[-] DroneRights@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Apparently every field needs computer scientists

[-] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I think a little friendly “competition” can be healthy, but it often turns into outright dismissal of other fields/ideas and needless cutting down because they view others as a threat. Someone else’s success undermines their own, that sort of thing. That is not productive and can even be damaging.

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