The answer will not be known until it is too late to be useful. The trappings of status and qualification on the topic slows the introduction of new perspectiv

The answer will not be known until it is too late to be useful. The trappings of status and qualification on the topic slows the introduction of new perspectives. Here's how: There are respected and established people who can investigate. They will start their investigations with the same pile of axioms that allowed a blind spot to grow into an issue in the first place. The alternate is challenging the status quo without pre-existing status to speak on the topic. Which makes it easy to shut down, or at least make sure they're ignored in the official channels.