A paper went quite viral in 2023ish talking about how scientific disruptions and innovation were down
Well, it turns out a mislabel in the dataset was a large driver of the supposed trend
But I bet you won't see this as much in the news
"The declining curves essentially mirror how metadata quality has increased over time"
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10787-y
https://phys.org/news/2026-08-science-disruptive-years-delay.html
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