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In the course of doing science/research scholars fall prey to desires, they covet prizes, fame, fortune, which sooner or later leads to a most common human characteristic: rivalry, competition, perhaps envy. These features are fostered by the large number of scholars that populate the globe today — greater number than at any other past time— together with the limited funds available for research. The end result is that science lives in a state of hypercompetition.
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Perez Velazquez, J.L. (2019). The Scientific Olympics: The Contest Among Scientists. In: The Rise of the Scientist-Bureaucrat. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12326-0_6
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