I'm sure there's stupidity to be found there, but when the real world REQUIRES you get things right in order to actually succeed, the accountability is to some extent baked into the cake, even if various institutions will try to put a few layers of obsfuscation between themselves and the outcomes.
Not sure if Physics still counts as "hard or concrete" field, but a lot of attention in the last few decades was spent on (mis-)adventures where the real world won't care one way or another. Of course, the fact that the world doesn't care also means that most people tuned out a long time ago, so at worst some people will have an egg on their face in a forest where nobody is around to notice.
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Not sure if Physics still counts as "hard or concrete" field, but a lot of attention in the last few decades was spent on (mis-)adventures where the real world won't care one way or another. Of course, the fact that the world doesn't care also means that most people tuned out a long time ago, so at worst some people will have an egg on their face in a forest where nobody is around to notice.
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