https://RationalAmerica.com/tags/kuhn/Recent content in Kuhn on Rational AmericaHugoen-usSun, 04 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0400https://RationalAmerica.com/posts/2026-10-04-the-secret-of-fixing-us-research-priorities-with-t/Sun, 04 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0400https://RationalAmerica.com/posts/2026-10-04-the-secret-of-fixing-us-research-priorities-with-t/<p>The secret of fixing US research priorities is hiding in plain sight, and it has nothing to do with budget percentages or workforce pipelines.</p> <p>It has to do with what we think science actually <em>is</em>.</p> <p>Every agency, review panel and program director in the American research enterprise runs on an unexamined theory of knowledge. Most of them don&rsquo;t know it. The ones who <em>do</em> know it think it doesn&rsquo;t matter. The rest of us are stuck living with the consequences.</p>