I remember days when top Czech scientists were denying the Global warming on one Czech scientific website. And here we go. Why the Czech website? Because Czech scientists sometimes struggle with English. You don’t need Czech language to understand scientific news. Czech culture just cannot make it large in scientific fields.
Bad governance: Bad top politician culture, bad parties culture, poor voting culture
It is just not about voter’s poor culture, but Czech mentality also means parties members and therefore the top politicians.
Czechs just cannot govern their country in some reasonable way. The most skilled politicians were replaced by complete amateurs. Lobbyists, however, remain very smart and same, it goes without saying.
Bad education system
Some people say the problem is at the universities. Totally wrong. If we exaggerated, it starts in the kindergarten.
Not only the Czech education system is known to fuel economic inequality, but also sociopathological phenomena.
Bad teacher, bad marks, bad job, they got fired, started drinking – and guess what? A murder has happened.
The funniest (but actually the most saddening) issue is that even the selective schools that people want to preserve don’t produce great scientists.
Czechs are not innovative, ambitious, only sheer IQ matters
Czechs are not – unlike Germans – innovative, ambitious and risk-takers.
While the “g factor” is one of the most statistical significant factors in humanities, we have also talents, personality traits and then unlimited different mental strategies (derived from IQ).
Czech schools prefer rote-memorizing, then IQ (despite it is not an exact concept) and – then – nothing.
No students’ previous work, efforts, talents, ambitiousness, giving signs he is fit and ready for the school.
Science: Shadow elites: No pressure
It is no secret Americans needed to have excellent science after WW2 because of the communist enemies.
But it wasn’t started by government itself but by shadow eminences.
Czech oligarchy has no interest to have good schools, they just have their crony-capitalism interest, fraudulent activities (criminal ones) and they happily have their assets moved to a tax paradise.
American hands – don’t want good Czech science
Western systems are interconnected through banks that mutually hold each other’s shares, board members and secret deals. And guess what? America, the most powerful, doesn’t want other universities (except for the Commonwealth) to be good.
And since banks control politicians, they control how good the education is. America wants to have the best science which means also creating such environment where other countries don’t have it. Even though some are resilient (Germans, for example).
People who know something about shadow politics are aware of the fact the secret services have their touch.
Poor funding and Czech culture
The problem, and also intentional, is poor funding. But as I said, the Czech culture isn’t good for academia – compare it to the Germans.
Czech culture: One Nobel Prize for exact science in a century
Jaroslav Heyrovský: The lone Czech Nobel in exact science
Czechia has only one Nobel Prize in exact sciences. Jaroslav Heyrovský won it in 1959. He invented polarography, a method that analyzes chemical substances through electrochemistry. It was a major scientific breakthrough. But no one followed. Since then, the country has produced no other Nobel in physics, chemistry, medicine, or economics.
The Czech Republic vs American states
With around 10.5 million people, Czechia compares well to a mid-sized American state. But the Nobel statistics do not. Not even close.
North Carolina
Same population. But four Nobel Prizes in exact sciences. Aziz Sancar and Paul Modrich, both Chemistry in 2015. George Hitchings, Medicine in 1988. Oliver Smithies, Medicine in 2007. All tied to research hubs in the state. Mostly Duke and UNC.
Massachusetts
Smaller population—only 7 million. But around 30 Nobel Prizes in exact sciences. Harvard and MIT are both based here. The state rewards talent, funds research, and attracts global minds. The outcome is obvious.
California
Almost four times the Czech population. But over 100 Nobel Prizes in exact sciences. Stanford, Caltech, Berkeley. A superpower in science. Czechia cannot compete with that kind of academic capital.
Illinois
Roughly 12.6 million people. But about 20 Nobel Prizes. Most are linked to the University of Chicago. The research culture runs deep. The Czech Republic has the brains. Illinois has the ecosystem.
New York
Just under 20 million people. Around 50 Nobel Prizes in exact sciences. Home to Columbia, Rockefeller, and Cornell. The state breeds scientific success and funds it too.
Other countries
In contrast, France, with a population only about six times larger, has produced over 30 Nobel Prizes in physics, chemistry, and medicine. Recent examples include Jean-Pierre Sauvage (Chemistry, 2016) and Emmanuelle Charpentier (Chemistry, 2020). The difference is not just in funding or size. It is cultural. France values scientific ambition, intellectual prestige, and serious academic rigor. Czechia, on the other hand, allows talent to disappear, buried under a broken education system, weak governance, and no serious environment to nurture scientific excellence.
The Scandinavian countries tell a similar story. Sweden, with a smaller population than Czechia, has produced about 20 Nobel Prizes in exact sciences. Denmark has produced around 8, and Norway about 3
Academia or business?
Our universities are far from being selective. And guess what? The top talent don’t go there. They rather go to business or emigrate. They are disgusted by the Czech science. By the way, the Czech Republic struggles to select the top talent at schools at the ladder below universities.
The university’s culture is poor. You are not selected on the basis of personality traits or talent. Just sheer rote-memorizing and IQ.
And even the Czech Republic is quite rich country, the funding is also poor. But we should rather aim it on the culture. The university’s culture reflects the general culture.
But don’t worry. Austria is a country far richer and they don’t do top science as well.
A change on the horizon?
The big campaign against corruption was started by globalist and local oligarchy. People just couldn’t stop politicians and their crooks to steal in the spotlight.
The USA does not want good schools, politicians don’t have the political capital and they don’t care.
So regular citizens may start the change? Yes, they might, but you would have to replace them.
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