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Wilkins Ice Shelf disintegrating
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:15:58 -0600, Lew Hartswick
wrote: Dersu Uzala wrote: and I know that in the scientific world, accolades go the scientist that over-turns the accepted paradigm. Jut where have you heard that? From the time of Galileo to the present I think you have proven wrong in that many time over. ...lew... cross posting deleted The disconnect is timeframe. Accolades for "wrong-thinkers" who turn out to be right are posthumous. Peer review is a good system for weeding out irresponsible and deliberately deceptive research, but it is as prone to imperfection and error as government elected by a majority because peers (and voters) often have self-interest agendae. There are few institutions more political and bureaucratic than universities and academia. |
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