>"We seem to have reached a point where rarely does a new invention throw off previous science without it being based on new science that was already in disagre

>"We seem to have reached a point where rarely does a new invention throw off previous science without it being based on new science that was already in disagreement with old science." Or perhaps science has become so institutionalized that any truly novel ideas are suppressed either directly or indirectly (eg the funding for that type of thing is already maxed out). Or maybe the truly novel ideas are getting classified: https://slate.com/technology/2018/05/the-thousands-of-secret-patents-that-the-u-s-government-refuses-to-make-public.html https://slate.com/technology/2018/05/the-thousands-of-secret...