I had hoped to read one of those occasional lists of the hard, outstanding problems scientists still need to solve, in biology, say, or physics. Instead, it's a list of meta "problems" like science funding, or poor study designs.
"Hard" problems can be eventually solved through tenacity, funding can't. Funnily enough, in my experience funding and proper experimental design is the hardest part of solving a problem.
There are multiple crises in science these days, whether of communication or recruitment or replication or of fraud or of anti-intellectualism fueled in part by the most egregious examples of these problems.
Fixing these problems, addressing these seven, would do much to restore the lustre and respect and authority science well done and scientists working well deserve.
The problem is not only the level of funding, but they way the funding is distributed. Science could live happily with the current expenditure if the way the funding was distributed was smarter.
