At least some of the frontier of science will always be unstardized.
Standards FOLLOW knowledge and are difficult to establish. Standards developed too early are often abandoned or at least deprecated as standards developed after more knowledge prove to be better. In an important sense, English units in science and measurement, gallons, feet, yards, knots, miles, BTU, psi, etc are inferior in many ways to metric a.k.a. SI standards, which came about later. Interestingly SI has not fully driven out English units, but it has certainly deprecated them. Meanwhile, I deal all of the time with things like grams/mile of CO2 emissions from cars, where the astute reader will recognize that this should be lbs/mile or grams/kilometer, but in the US we drive in miles and there is no avoiding that, while our scientists are rather more able to deal with grams of CO2.
SO as long as science is advancing, there will be areas where standards are being threshed out, and probably some areas where they are being threshed out too soon, and so much of the valuable work will be unable to use these nascent standards.
It is not a new observation that standards are useful and so should be developed, but rather an old and ongoing one.
At least some of the frontier of science will always be unstardized.
Standards FOLLOW knowledge and are difficult to establish. Standards developed too early are often abandoned or at least deprecated as standards developed after more knowledge prove to be better. In an important sense, English units in science and measurement, gallons, feet, yards, knots, miles, BTU, psi, etc are inferior in many ways to metric a.k.a. SI standards, which came about later. Interestingly SI has not fully driven out English units, but it has certainly deprecated them. Meanwhile, I deal all of the time with things like grams/mile of CO2 emissions from cars, where the astute reader will recognize that this should be lbs/mile or grams/kilometer, but in the US we drive in miles and there is no avoiding that, while our scientists are rather more able to deal with grams of CO2.
SO as long as science is advancing, there will be areas where standards are being threshed out, and probably some areas where they are being threshed out too soon, and so much of the valuable work will be unable to use these nascent standards.
It is not a new observation that standards are useful and so should be developed, but rather an old and ongoing one.