Scientific Norms Are Idealistic & Fall Short in Reality... --- While the majority of researchers pursue science for its own sake, scientists are human and therefore fallible (when the motivation becomes money, fame and/or power). This plays out in different theatres: limited funding, limited access to phd, postdoctoral and academic positions, perverse incentive of 'publish or perish', inadequate diversity and equity at all levels but particularly in leadership positions, nations and regions competing for S&T prominence and influence, Global North exploiting Global South for plant/animal/human samples and data while depriving them of access to technologies and benefits...

The norms are aspirational and should continue to guide us, but bearing in mind the deficits thus far...

Source author: Vid Nukala Vid.Nukala@gmail.com