Thomas Kuhn revisited; Climategate is back (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Monday, November 28, 2011, 01:30 (4723 days ago) @ David Turell

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.

I wasn't talking about government programs like going to the moon. I think a severe overload of politics has invaded scietific research becsue of all the government grant money.

As far as peer review, again, instruct me how the system has been preventing new ideas from coming to fruition? If an idea is powerful enough, those who opposed it look like buffoons. Let time do its work.

I'm sorry, but I cannot tolerate all the garbage and extraneous journals in the meantime. Look at the lifetime of string theory!!

String theory has resulted in as of yet, only one posited test, and one confirmed novel explanation.

1 confirmation doesn't make it automatically viable, but lets remember here that the confirmation was derived by thinking about the universe in the way of Strings that lead to novel mathematics. (Without String Theory, we may NEVER have found an equation that would explain that phenomenon.)

So... while again even I don't like String Theory, I'm not as ready to dismiss it readily as you seem to be here. Remember that philosophy tends to precede culture by about 200 years; I think that theoretical physics is probably about 200 years ahead of experimental physics in a very similar fashion. Again, I'm not saying that String Theory is correct, but the avenues it has opened into exploring our universe I think are literally at the cutting edge, bleeding edge as the phrase may turn.

As far as all of the journals, etc., when has this ever been different? I remind you that there used to be journals of phrenology and eugenics not 100 years ago. It's not for you or I to judge the ultimate importance of many of these journals until history has had its say.

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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.\"