For generations, science has advanced through a tension between caution and ambition. On one hand, the scientific method depends on skepticism, replication, and evidence. On the other hand, history’s greatest discoveries often began as improbable ideas pursued by researchers willing to solve the world’s biggest problems. Modern science has given us the ability to edit our genes, life-saving vaccines, and a glimpse at the origins of the universe. But is the system that produced these breakthroughs holding itself back?
