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I doubt that there would be much point in advising a student pilot that volcanic plumes can disable an airliner, and until it happened, I doubt that anyone had even thought about it.
At the moment of its discovery, only one or a few person has a particular scientific knowledge. Only when it's communicated to wider audience, more people will know about it. And only when most people who are confident enough to express their opinions have accepted it, it becomes the mainstream.
Whether an idea is "mainstream" has no relevance to science.
The value of your (or anyone's) ideas is the extent to which they explain the status quo and predict the outcome of the next experiment. Nothing to do with consensus, everything to do with demonstrability.
"Influential figures" includes scum like politicians and religious perverts. Not the sort of company a gentleman scientist would wish to keep.
Non-mainstream ideas are less likely to get public funding.
Then just keep the "Influential figures" who are not scum.
Demonstrability will eventually lead to consensus.
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 04/08/2024 12:46:07Then just keep the "Influential figures" who are not scum.Can you name one, who isn't a competitor in your own field?
Did Covid affect global CO2 level ?
Did it affect global temperature?
Can't you distinguish between competitors and scums?
Research is the last thing you should do when faced with a problem, and almost never worth doing in the absence of a problem.
Quote from: alancalverd on 07/07/2024 10:00:15And never forget the Kruger-Dunning Principle. Ignorance breeds arrogance. That's why I opened my data to be discussed here. If my ideas survive scrutiny, then it's for their merits, not necessarily because of me personally. If they are truly universal, then sooner or later someone else will come up with the same conclusions.
And never forget the Kruger-Dunning Principle. Ignorance breeds arrogance.
Sabine Hossenfelder is a very popular science communicator who focuses largely on topics in physics. Although much of her content is effective and without issue, there is an undercurrent of anti-establishment rhetoric that has grown immensely as of late, and it is an enormous problem. Sabine is a not a charlatan like most of my other targets, and this is not a hit piece, but rather commentary on this aspect of her work and how it came to be. If you are a fan of hers, consider this perspective.
In which I apologize that my videos sometimes lack nuance and explain why I think we are witnessing the failure of science.