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> Why is that? If our ideas are good, don't we want the most number of people to know them? Do you think the tools for broad communication and peer practitione
by Kalium 6y ago
> Why is that? If our ideas are good, don't we want the most number of people to know them?
Do you think the tools for broad communication and peer practitioner communication could be very different because they have different aims? Spreading findings in cutting-edge research as broadly as possible is perhaps in some cases not the primary goal.
That is not to say we should in any way that we should gatekeep knowledge! That is unconscionable. It's just that perhaps Watson and Crick's paper on x-ray crystallography of DNA is perhaps not the ideal time to stop and explain what electromagnetism is so that a reader can understand what an x-ray is.