Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein
Fair question. But compare it to startups. Or “People who will be successful making a career in music.” Or “Actors who should continue to wait tables.” I am an enormous critic of academic research. But high-end research has been *phenomenally* high quality until fairly recently. — PolitiTweet.org
Marc Andreessen @pmarca
What % of published academic research papers are worth anything? Roughly: Half of the fields are useless. 90% of th… https://t.co/eNgeBJnpJd