Why we need to work together to support team science, Fiona Watt (Feb 2019)

https://mrc.ukri.org/news/blog/supporting-team-science/

Presumably the same Fiona Watt as mentioned in this post https://www.s4me.info/threads/trial...s-retraction-requests.8230/page-3#post-145330

 

Team science seems to be the accepted way forward and is particularly relevant to such as ME where 'big data' is probably very import in moving our understanding forward.

However does it also carry the risks of increasing the need to conform to the current orthodoxy and to defer to eminence on the part of junior scientists, the dangers of which most here are only too well aware.

More recognition of 'junior' team members may be a way of reducing the top down control or does it by creating formal systems for that recognition paradoxically increase top down control.

 

I think it is just window dressing to counter accusations of bullying and exploitation. It is a manifestation of the 'job-using' of science. Everything is now seen in terms of career prospects and employment rights. The actual science has been forgotten about.