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kleinbl00 · 4981 days ago · link · · parent · post: Why won’t Professor Susan Greenfield publish this theory in a scientific journal?
Science has always been about ideology. I think you'll find that if you did a normal distribution of scientific discovery, those that fall a couple standard deviations outside the mean are the ones who tend to be shattering paradigms and the ones hanging on to tattered, moth-eaten theories long since disproven.
The guys in the middle aren't really advancing anything fundamental; they're moving incrementally. Anyone not making incremental moves (either forward or backward) is going to be called a kook by someone. Semmelweiss died in an insane asylum, for example, and Galileo was excommunicated not because the church thought he was wrong, but because the church thought the public couldn't handle it.