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inefficiency

Collaboration comes with it's own challenges and inefficiencies

Independent concurrent discovery might be better than independent confirmation.

modern science isn't intended to minimize inefficiency- it's intended to maximize the rate of stochastic discovery.

survivorship bias

If it's affordable and practical for one person/team to do it, it's probably affordable for two or more groups to do it.

The reason this happened G Protein Coupled Receptors, which is what MC1R is, are being heavily investigated for drug development.

Well it makes sense since orange boys act like they’re on drugs.

The rate of research could have sped up thanks to technological advancements.

It orange cat genes when it's orange-cat-gene time.

They got the braincell