When you teach kids, you know that a very important part of learning (education) is to stablish limits, but only a few or you become an authoritarian father. Then you kill intrisic motivation.
Excessive control is against freedom, creativity, open mind, development... what happens today with the standards in science, with the script that we alll must follow to avoid punishment (APA rules, peer review rules, journals specific rules, ethics commitees rules, rules to fill forms in projects or to grants, rules and continuos supervision to develop a thesis, statistical power rules...). Is now science better than ever or just an script, an habit where criticism, different perspectives or just thinking by yourself (to select a topic of research...) is impossible. Is science an automatism with the sense or mind lost? who analyze science scripts and their effects? In what evidence are they supported? just more regulations against researchers autonomy and ability?
This was also a big discussion in Poland where most of the journals didn't fallow APA or any international standard rules. We were all eventually forced to publish in international journals by the government. The result is that we've got less publications, but our research is more internationally recognized. It also severely affected scholars that are not fluent in English.
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