> I'm all for continued research, and I'm especially in favor of funding/encouraging research that opposes common viewpoints and conclusions regardless of the s

> I'm all for continued research, and I'm especially in favor of funding/encouraging research that opposes common viewpoints and conclusions regardless of the subject I agree. Recently I've been involved in some research where the thing we found was not only believed to not exist, there were some published theories for why it shouldn't exist. It's hard to get stuff like that published. You use every instrument at your disposal to accumulate proof, and reviewers still won't accept it. So yeah, I think funding & encouraging research that opposes common viewpoints is really important. It's hard to tell whether what's discussed in the article will do that though.