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What controversial ideas are missing funding, which dissent is missing please? What's the bar. I'm genuinely asking constructively, because I would like to find
by igorkraw 7y ago
What controversial ideas are missing funding, which dissent is missing please? What's the bar. I'm genuinely asking constructively, because I would like to find a scalable improvement on the rather slow moving funding structure (unless driven by hype). But there are hundreds of free energy, "race realist", AGW deniers etc. being blocked by the current system, as well as genuine con men.
Also, I dislike the idea that science doesn't like controversial ideas or dissent. Yes there is group think, yes there are cabals, but in general, if you find weird results, you publish and they get discussed. What else do people want to come out of the proposal controversial ideas? Controversial doesn't make it automatically good
- lopmotr 7y agoYou have to be careful with "race realist". It can mean people who believe there is only a small number of sharply divided races, such as mongoloid, negroid, and caucasoid. But it can also be used to describe hereditarians who identify meaningful classifications of people with boundaries roughly corresponding to traditional races. Those latter ideas are quite respectable scientifically even though they're demonized in popular culture.
- igorkraw 7y agoCan you give me some examples of mainstream geneticists (not popular, just academically accepted) which will counter h ttps://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Hereditarianism and the sources in it? Otherwise, your comment reads to me "you have to be careful with this racist euphemism, it can refer to two different attempts of racist pseudoscience trying to appear legit"