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Recall the saying that science proceeds one funeral at a time. I believe it was coined as part of describing the shift to acceptance of plate tectonics.
by quantified 7y ago
Recall the saying that science proceeds one funeral at a time. I believe it was coined as part of describing the shift to acceptance of plate tectonics.
- greglindahl 7y agoThat's the worst case. It doesn't always proceed that slowly.
- caycep 7y agoThe professional science/medicine funding system (i.e. NIH money) can be characterized by "cabal" depending on how you look at at it. If by "cabal" they mean any organized profesional vetting system. I suppose there is a trade off between vetting good funding ideas from the bad, vs. the risk of "suppressing" original views aside from the "dogma". Did some alternative views get squashed by not receiving R or K grants? maybe. I would bet some of them might have been true original ideas that needed money to get good preliminary data. But many of them probably did not pan out. A lengthy way of saying I agree w/ the OP of the thread...
- narag 7y ago... the shift to acceptance of plate tectonics Of all things. My favourite odd anecdote of the year.
- btilly 7y agoIt was coined by Max Plank in 1930. I believe that it was about the acceptance of Quantum Mechanics. Examples include that Edward Cope never accepted Darwin's theory of evolution (even though the fossils that he found were good evidence for it), Albert Einstein never accepted QM (even though his Nobel was for one of the key discoveries on the way to QM), and Fred Hoyle never accepted the Big Bang (even though he coined the phrase).
- btilly 7y agoI went and found an interesting article confirming this. When a star researcher in a field dies, the result is an increase in people entering the field and exploring the ideas. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21917047 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21917047