Re: Are There Any Actual Physicists/Scientists Here?

> I'll ask you a question, why does 'science' need protection?
> Is it not, by definition of its methods, self correcting? Thus
> self protecting. The world needs less thought police.

I agree fully with that. However scientific research (and not
scientific knowledge) is also indirectly affected by the funding, and
support (probably among other things) it receives from
politicians/general public. I'd argue that if science wasn't this
populized it would be harder to do research, although I cannot provide
much justification to this idea.

Aydin

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