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.
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.
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.
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.