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(Assuming the parent comment is normative/prescriptive rather than just descriptive) This is a dangerously wrong perspective. There are many beliefs that we con
by ssivark 5y ago
(Assuming the parent comment is normative/prescriptive rather than just descriptive) This is a dangerously wrong perspective. There are many beliefs that we consider laughably crazy today that were “settled” per the experts of the day.
Remember “Eppur si muove”? It is impossible to establish who the “experts” are by the old truths — we need the new truths for that.
To channel Max Planck, scientific revolutions happen not publication to publication but funeral to funeral as old experts die and people grow up with new truths.
- ChrisLomont 5y agoThe number of bad and wrong ideas stopped by this format vastly outnumber the few examples you think this format impedes. The proper way to evaluate this system is not to cherry pick a few rare examples and claim it as the norm. The correct way is to take all inputs, true and false, and see the outcome. Then you compare this info to other systems that have been tried. And maybe propose new systems, but only after you understand the problems with previous systems that led to the current one so you don't simply repeat past errors.