You may not agree with this paper, but you should read it:
"Aging and the narrowing of scientific innovation", Cui et al. 2026 (James Evans lab)
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ady8732
"Analyzing more than 12.5 million scientists who published between 1960 and 2020, we find that novelty—the linking of previously unconnected ideas—increases with academic age, whereas disruption—the replacement of established ideas with new ones—declines."
I wonder if "novelty increasing with age" has anything to do with aging scientists commenting on something they have no expertise in and being completely ridiculous.
Physicists talking about conciousness would be an example.
Another example: aging comp sci bloke reading QM (me): I've concluded that (a) Copenhagen is right, (b) QM is truly fundamentally probabalistic, and (c) this drives real physicists mad, since their dream of finding an ultimate explanation is trashed.
Teixi
Albert Cardona
David, a Bostonian in Tokyo.