The Water Next Time: Professor Who Helped Expose Crisis in Flint Says Public Science Is Broken

Steve Kolowich:

I am concerned about the culture of academia in this country and the perverse incentives that are given to young faculty. The pressures to get funding are just extraordinary. We’re all on this hedonistic treadmill — pursuing funding, pursuing fame, pursuing h-index — and the idea of science as a public good is being lost.