It is natural that research should be competitive, but there is now ample evidence that competition is too fierce for many people's peace of mind and for the health of the scientific enterprise as a whole.
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Maddox, J. Competition and the death of science. Nature 363, 667 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1038/363667a0
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