- Peter Thiel on the dynamics of scientific competition: https://youtu.be/6kGND-uZolY?t=998
- Very interesting, the history of the quote “Academic Politics Are So Vicious Because the Stakes Are So Small”: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/08/18/acad-politics/
- Risk of being scooped drives scientists to shoddy methods: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/01/risk-being-scooped-drives-scientists-shoddy-methods