nature.com/articles/d41586-024

What could go wrong really?

We should really start pushing studies, not novelty for the sake of novelty. Also, I thought we were past = ...

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@nicolaromano wow, didn't expect that from science. Pushing for novelty can be very bad and dangerous for innovation.
Take my field: drug design. Lately there has been a large application of different generative algorithms to the process. Very innovative articles come out every few days presenting a new algorithm to work with drug design.
None of these algorithms are actually ever used to design drugs. Sure, a bit of improvements over those methodologies is good before you apply them, but it's now been 7 years, I think it is time we test whether all these methods actually do work or not.

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