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Is this the consensus because it’s true, or because anybody who suggests otherwise is pilloried and driven out of academia?
by togetheragainor 1y ago
Is this the consensus because it’s true, or because anybody who suggests otherwise is pilloried and driven out of academia?
- jdiff 1y agoI think you'd do well to read this person's thoughts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44933637 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44933637
- togetheragainor 1y agoThat person didn't address the current climate in academia at all. Their examples of "contrarians" are all long-dead professors whose papers were published many decades ago in a different academic climate. That doesn't refute that academia in America has suffered ideological capture since, and questioning the "scientific consensus" on certain politically-charged topics is career suicide. Also their Japan example seems poor. Japan remains a short a country relative to their prosperity. They're several centimeters shorter than a country with a similar GDP per capita, like Czech Republic. They're about the same average height as Somalians, despite having significantly better food security and a GDP per capita that's over 50 times higher.