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Scientists' Battle Against Paradigm Shift
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Very important discussion, science is really a closed religion sometimes, money and power rules most of the Critical thinking 😐
"Paradigms are not corrigible by normal science at all. They are terminated by a relatively sudden and unstructured event like the gestalt switch.
The competition between paradigms is not the sort of battle that can be resolved by proofs."
– Thomas Kuhn The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962)
"I have utterly broken down the whole structure of the current political economy.
The professors will first ignore, then pooh-pooh, and then try to hold the shattered fragments of their theories together; but this book opens the discussion along lines on which they cannot make a successful defence."
– Henry George on his book Progress and Poverty (1879)
Popper is correct as far as I can tell with regards to truth—only through refutation, which seldom goes to completion by any means—though I think as you and your colleagues like Michael Hudson can articulate, major contributing factors are the social and psychological impacts of the individuals in question, and "it's all about the Benjamins [Franklin or $100 bills for US currency. I could use Q.E.2s for Commonwealth nations.]" Big Science and the emphasis on new materials production was backed by a combination of the petrol industry and then the nuclear weapons programs. When the latter were shuttered, nuclear particle research in the US effectively dried up—the SCSC was cancelled, mass investment shuttered, and corporate money went only to (primarily) private equity approved science with very little left over—and most if not all stuck behind vast paywalls, totally antithetical to that of 100 years prior.
When the old generation of physicists, chemists, economists die, then you get a new physics, a new chemistry, but still will have the old economics because unlike physics and chemistry the general public thinks they understand economics. 😆😒🤔
A philosophical discussion of form following functional quantization, cause-effect fields interference consequences, and the alternative discrete Disproof Methodology of numerological relative-timing differentiates, it's all very hyperfluid squishy-ness, and perfectly thoughtless fundamentally.
Or a rational and reasonable approach would say that the philosophical integration of self-defining temporal superposition relativism has to "stand alone" and be justified by relevant observation.
Eg "Evidence of Absence is not Absence of Evidence" in the Eternity-now Aether Actuality Holographic Principle Perspective.
Sulloway’s Born to Rebel is an interesting essay on the topic to openness to experience. It’s. a good complement to discussions of institutional and academic inertia.