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...This [problem] is found in all disciplines but is exacerbated in the hard sciences," says Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics Howard Georgi. "It is much more acute in the mathematical sciences...
...When Georgi was chair of the physics department, he developed mechanics to allow people to get to know one another and form study groups by publishing lists of phone numbers and addresses. He argues that getting to know other students makes the classroom environment warmer and more comfortable...
...awards often come up for funding review ona yearly basis, says Georgi, and so even existingawards would not be completely immune...
...Human nature is one of the reasons that the [scientific] process isn't always smooth," says Georgi. "If you look at experimental results, there are pressures on experiments from all sides so they don't uniformly and evenly approach the right answer...
...Georgi admits that the anti-science philosophycorrectly recognizes the huge social structuresurrounding science. But he says post-modernism"misses the point that there's something beneaththat structure...