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May be the ignorant managers of science or scientists came up with this thought that : 

If one brings together a group of scientists, there will be breakthroughs in science. Further to this they show the benefits of event managements, conferences etc. In that case, all the problems should have gotten solved by now.

But I truly doubt the intentions behind this or the objectives and success percentage. The initial attempts would have been a huge success because of ignorance/unconsciousness. But as genuine scientists become conscious of social networking concepts and conferences, they will back out from them else they will convinced by the event managers to consider these meetings  as paid vacations and official picnic spots. They will never be there for the seriousness or objective. It will be huge waste of time and money for the rest attending the events. 

It is not the analogy - when you bring a group of water droplets together and they spontaneously become a big drop. Hmm..I doubt that. Droplets dont have consciousness of existence, they donot have the concept of competition, they donot have the concept of survival. Come On!!

The essence behind conferences, events is simple: Dogbert's rules:  

Conferences, Event managements are typical business models and nothing else. Bigger the event, bigger the profit. Why ? bigger the registrants, fat will be the pocket. It will not be an exxageration to tell that for every registrant the event will spend, at max, 0.1x of the registration fee. The remaining is shared among the partners. Wow!! thats - making a killing. Host 2 such conferences per year, no need of a job and no need of working every day. Work for a month, thats it.

This is far easier than writing grants, discovering , stressing the mind, working 8hrs / day etc. Easy bucks, fast bucks. This is exactly what India is learning. Keep going ! It expects progress in science by this.

My other Blog: Managers in Scientist positions also further describes why future scientific progress is bleak.  

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