Thomas Kuhn revisited; Climategate is back (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Sunday, November 27, 2011, 18:36 (4723 days ago) @ David Turell

Thre has been another dump of 5,000 emails via internet showing collusion among controlling scientists who receive huge grants.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/

I still demand we go back to the old days, few grants via government and the end of peer review

Fewer Government Grants == less innovation.

Why do I say this?

The race to the moon.

Private companies had very little to gain by sending a person to the moon. In fact, MOST of the projects the government has undertaken have historically been projects that simply carry no immediate commercial value. Indeed, my own field of computers had quite a bit of early drive stemming from the space program--demands that would not and could not have been met by the needs of corporations. (Most corporations need high volumes of transactions, they don't need the more scientific applications of computer architectures.) This is also why I don't think Al Gore's plan of setting a "moon race" target for cleaner energy is a bad idea at all, whether or not the threat of Global Warming is as significant as he claims. (The only secure energy strategy is NOT to rely on anyone at all.) The problem is, in some instances the market doesn't move fast enough, and I see no problem with setting targets to help speed it along.

As far as peer review, again, instruct me how the system has been preventing new ideas from coming to fruition? Especially with the advent of the internet! Name one instance in history where an idea was permanently squashed by peer review? You need to be more patient and let humans do things in their own time. If an idea is powerful enough, those who opposed it look like buffoons. Let time do its work.

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\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"

\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"