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mk · 4910 days ago · link · · parent · post: Why won’t Professor Susan Greenfield publish this theory in a scientific journal?
The guys in the middle aren't really advancing anything fundamental; they're moving incrementally.
That's most of what is going on. However, although I have little interest in this type of science, this filling-in-of-holes is purposeful stuff. Sometimes it takes the guy that spends 30 years in a corner to find out that we can build robots that swim like frog sperm or something crazy like that. But yeah, it's numbing to see the number of articles that are basically: "we did this and saw that". Even so, I think ideology can drive science, but it can't inform it. That's the mistake that is made time and time again. Especially by those that have been rewarded when their ideology and science matched before.