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I was asked to keep this confidential
Sabine Hossenfelder
Sabine Hossenfelder reads a confidential email and uses it to explain her worries about academia and incentives in theoretical physics research. She ties it to her earlier Nature Physics comment on research quality.
Cited in threads about science funding and trust in research as an angry insider critique of academic incentives, though some commenters doubt it.
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