A culture of (individual) success --- I totally agree with you! Unfortunately I feel that we value too much success of one's vision or opinion. Furthermore, the ego of some people but also communities, including scientists, can prevent to find common solutions. As an example, I want to take evidence based medicine guidelines, who vary between countries according to which specialty is stronger/better represented (it has big repercussions for examples on surgical vs conservative therapies). What if we start to reward the one who made the step towards the other?

Source author: Katharina Beyer katharina.beyer@etu.unige.ch