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Absolutely. I wonder if we will ever live in a time when these sort of games are not necessary. There's the old saying that "Science progresses one funeral at a
by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
Absolutely. I wonder if we will ever live in a time when these sort of games are not necessary. There's the old saying that "Science progresses one funeral at a time." The problem is that scientists are even more receptive to 'less than popular' ideas than the masses are. And by 'old' that statement was from Max Planck, who died in 1947.
- ars 8y agoIf anything I think it's gotten/will get worse. Because people have to specialize so much these days they get VERY wedded to their ideas, and much more resistant to change. Back when you could know all of science, someone could change one part or another and it was just one more thing - not the core of what you do. For example say "there is no dark matter" - every single person who studies dark matter (and nothing else) is going to be virtually impossible to convince - and yet those are EXACTLY the people who have the expertise to verify such a claim.