“Data from millions of manuscripts show that, compared with the mid-twentieth century, research done in the 2000s was much more likely to incrementally push science forward than to veer off in a new direction and render previous work obsolete. Analysis of patents from 1976 to 2010 showed the same trend.”

“The rate of decline is also puzzling: CD indices fell steeply from 1945 to 1970, then more gradually from the late 1990s to 2010. “Whatever explanation you have for disruptiveness dropping off, you need to also make sense of it levelling off” in the 2000s, he said”

Jeez, so much tricky homework there boss. Just keep on slinging us those $100m – multi-billion-dollar grants cleverly creamed from the bank accounts of those suckers the low- and middle-income taxpayers.

– We’ll be busy for years to come recording, noting down and loading up servers with data collected on historical lines,* with those pesky protest-group ecology and human rights issues noted as STEM-irrelevant narrative, anecdote and opinion, as we doggedly stick with good old mechanics, thermodynamics, Space-X rocketry, re-mapping Mars 92,000,000 away,** generally discovering and counting biospheric, microorganic and human prehistoric stuff and making videos for schoolkids about colourful telegenic animals, plants, birds, fish, fungi, crustaceans, er, cetaceans and phytoplankton – but no yucky greenie plastic in intestines – dogged faithful servants of the mid 18th century northern England industrial revolution until we inevitably croak.. for man that was born of woman.. oh do shut up, Kevin.. yeh righto Mum.. I said shut up.. nghnph

“Study finds Earth’s Ozone Layer is on course to be healed in decades” – Ita Buttrose & Scottie Morrison’s Australian Broad & Bloke Casting Corporation Tue 10th Jan 2023 (Ngus’ Radio?)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-04577-5

*clearly the universities’ and the godfather-billionaire autocracy’s strategy and intention

**yes i know we’ve ‘been’ there & done that but it’s on a cluncky if not already obsolete 50-metre global positioning scale and what else are we going to do with all this money – it’s the economy