Thomas Kuhn revisited; Climategate is back (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Sunday, November 27, 2011, 20:08 (4749 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained

Peer review may or may not squash an idea permenantly, but it is definitely guilty of slowing innovation wasting tons of time and energy. If a single idea that is true, or real, is pushed to the background in favor of a 'popular' theory then it is to the detriment of the entire community.

This is true, Tony, but the argument that David makes against peer review is identical, to me, to saying "Humans should stop being human." In the same stroke we should axe political parties and all of psychology.

*ALL* of us inherit and learn ideas that resound so profoundly to us, that we instinctively fight to protect them. Scientists are no less fallible. An idea takes however much time it takes to be realized by our collective as it takes. No more, no less. You cannot rush this process any more than you can rush having a baby.

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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.\"