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howunfortunate • today at 4:43 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

That has been true of a lot of good science for a while.

The person who gets the credit is just the person who wrote the grant. They are usually _capable_ of doing good science but the demands of being a PI mean they are mostly just grant writers and administrators. Huge teams of unknown postdocs, grad students etc. are doing most of the work.