If science is a strong link problem then, all else being equal, we should expect the best science to be at the extreme ends of any spectrum we use to measure it.
True and I love this framing yet we still gatekeep with the concept of PhDs invented when we sliced the universe into ever finer vertical domains and abolished autodidacts, and antidisciplinary polymaths. I’m curious how we let them back into the fold, akin to when the “age of wonder” invented the word scientist after so long claiming the domain belonged to “natural philosophers.”
True and I love this framing yet we still gatekeep with the concept of PhDs invented when we sliced the universe into ever finer vertical domains and abolished autodidacts, and antidisciplinary polymaths. I’m curious how we let them back into the fold, akin to when the “age of wonder” invented the word scientist after so long claiming the domain belonged to “natural philosophers.”