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February 08, 2010
February 18, 2012
On the subject of
scientific dogmatism
It's quite possible to latch on to
dubious assumptions without realizing it
QUASICRYSTALS
But there are converse traps, where
the dramatic appeal of a Revolutionary
Discovery blinds you to problems
COLD_FUSION
There are classic problems with reasoning
based on a fear of dogmatism or of anti-
dogmatism.
The perennial problem (now in decline?)
of crackpots with perpetual motion ideas,
bravely issuing pragmatic challenges to
the ruling dogma of thermodynamics...
But if you worry excessively about being one
of those anti-dogmatic crackpots, you may
end up on a different trap, refusing to And that point is
*ever* challenge orthodoxy that really can happily seized on by
get in the way of new work... the perpetual motion
crowd and friends.
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