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Neomania: How Our Obsession With Innovation is Failing Science, and How to Restore Trust

Contemporary science faces a profound poly-crisis: replication failures, weak theories, poor generalizability, and declining public trust. Neomania contends that these symptoms stem not merely from flawed practices or institutional pressures, but from a deeper cultural pathology—our collective obsession with innovation. This valorization of the new for its own sake has reshaped the scientific enterprise, privileging novelty over...

Keywords:: Sociology and philosophy of science, SCI034000, JHB, PDX, Scientific coordination, Replication crisis, JPP, Innovation History, QDTK, PDA, KJMV6, PHI004000, SCI075000, Open Science, BUS108000

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Material Type:: Open (Access) Textbook
Date Added to MERLOT:: February 6, 2026
Date Modified in MERLOT:: February 6, 2026
Author:: Krist Vaesen, Eindhoven University of Technology
Submitter:: Open Book Publishers
Primary Audience:: College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division, Graduate School, Professional
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