> The incentive structures in science encourage novelty Former academic here. This may be superficially true, but it's always been "novelty within the establis

> The incentive structures in science encourage novelty Former academic here. This may be superficially true, but it's always been "novelty within the established orthodoxy". Kuhn documents this quite well, but it's become even more true since the funding motivated push for peer review that started in the 1970s. Academic publishing today strongly demands conformity for survival. Geoffrey Hinton has a great quote, that I can't seem to dig up, about having any truly ground breaking work dismissed by juniors who have no idea what you're talking about being a major problem in moving science forward. The bigger issue is that we have very little space for actual dissidenters. For example there is lots to legitimately question about mainstream medicine, but it's hard to walk too far down that path without immediately getting thrown in with "vaccines cause autism!!!".