Something like virology is not a social science, but that does not mean that we should confuse it with the hard sciences. This sort of scam could not have been pulled in something like physics, let alone for a year.
They've been able to effectively suppress Evolutionary Biology for decades now, and more recently they've infiltrated Comp. Sci and even Math. Nothing is out of reach for these people. If anything the current generation is way more political and supportive of censorship "for the greater good".
All sciences are vulnerable to self-censorship which works by preventing scientific study or consideration through ridicule. One example in physics is its continuing discrediting of Psi phenomena (i.e., telepathy, retrocausation, presentiment) in spite of the fact they have been robustly proven in over 3000 of the most closely scrutinised experiments in science.
Possibly. But the black holes in question would be so small that they wouldn't be able to attract anything.
My point wasn't that physicists are infallible. The whole history of ether should show that. It's that there is a much more healthy discourse in a discipline when you cannot smuggle in wholesale fraud because many of your fellow members agree with it. There is an external test, as Thomas Sowell said.
The problem is peer review, which has morphed from a form of quality control into a puritanical kind of establishment gatekeeping. Most of the greatest advances in physics and every other discipline were published before peer review was really a thing: none of Einstein's big papers were peer reviewed before they were published, for example. In those days, anything could be published and if another scientist disagreed, they could publish their own dissenting paper in the same journal.
These days, radical dissentions from established scientific narratives, especially ones touching on politically charged issues like climate change or the efficacy of masks, can't get published in most major journals, because external reviewers have the power to squash them. Often these reviewers are academic insiders with their own careers and reputations invested in scholarship that upholds the status quo.
Something like virology is not a social science, but that does not mean that we should confuse it with the hard sciences. This sort of scam could not have been pulled in something like physics, let alone for a year.
They've been able to effectively suppress Evolutionary Biology for decades now, and more recently they've infiltrated Comp. Sci and even Math. Nothing is out of reach for these people. If anything the current generation is way more political and supportive of censorship "for the greater good".
All sciences are vulnerable to self-censorship which works by preventing scientific study or consideration through ridicule. One example in physics is its continuing discrediting of Psi phenomena (i.e., telepathy, retrocausation, presentiment) in spite of the fact they have been robustly proven in over 3000 of the most closely scrutinised experiments in science.
Do you have any examples of 'psi phenomena' experiments? I've never heard of this, it sounds interesting.
This video is pretty old now but covers it pretty well.
Aren't the physicists making the experiments that can potentially create s black hole and other ridicalous scenarios like that?
Possibly. But the black holes in question would be so small that they wouldn't be able to attract anything.
My point wasn't that physicists are infallible. The whole history of ether should show that. It's that there is a much more healthy discourse in a discipline when you cannot smuggle in wholesale fraud because many of your fellow members agree with it. There is an external test, as Thomas Sowell said.
The problem is peer review, which has morphed from a form of quality control into a puritanical kind of establishment gatekeeping. Most of the greatest advances in physics and every other discipline were published before peer review was really a thing: none of Einstein's big papers were peer reviewed before they were published, for example. In those days, anything could be published and if another scientist disagreed, they could publish their own dissenting paper in the same journal.
These days, radical dissentions from established scientific narratives, especially ones touching on politically charged issues like climate change or the efficacy of masks, can't get published in most major journals, because external reviewers have the power to squash them. Often these reviewers are academic insiders with their own careers and reputations invested in scholarship that upholds the status quo.
Peer Review in its earliest form was a way for the Catholic Church to dictate science. The only thing that has changed today is the cabal in charge.
There's been quite a lot of "are you sure it won't kill everyone?" like with https://www.insidescience.org/manhattan-project-legacy/atmosphere-on-fire and yet they went YOLO with it, "let's find out!"