Left the solar system! A year ago… [Hasty Science]

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Do you remember cheers about Voyager leaving the solar system area at last?
It was in September. A landmark day for human kind.

What most people did not know at the time, was that the spacecraft had actually left the solar system A YEAR AGO!
The announcement was made so much later because of the peer review process which took so long!

blog.physicsworld.com/2013/09/13 … -remember/

This is an excellent example of how proper science should work!
Staying unpublished until you totally verify your conclusions is the way to go.

HOWEVER what we see is the OPPOSITE: Scientists are so eager to publish that they often publish hastily and without proper verification. How many times have we not see contradictory research “findings”? You see the need for research funding is what drives everything, not the love for science. Fortunatelly Voyager was beyond all that…

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Being popular drives every field. But so does money. I may be wrong but are not grants for research usually timed? You have to get the answer or lose the money?
Scientists unfortunately need money for living, shortcuts can provide that.

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That is so last year. Stroll on Sciencists.

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Indeed this is the case.
But can science driven by money be better than free science?

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Of course not. Look at pharmaceutical companies. They should have cures for many things but, that would not bring in money.