Does Science Need Rethinking?

People with a doctorate may recognize this moment: you realize there are few souls in your direct vicinity who have their feet so deep in the exact same ‘mud’ as you. You effectively ‘marry’ your topic for four years, for better or worse, bouncing your ideas off the wall, and the occasional colleague who researches ‘something’ in a similar direction. Hence, while I was working on my own PhD some time ago, I jumped at the opportunity to…