Michael Gordin, “Science and Pseudoscience” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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The Problem of the Founder of a Research Foundation
There's this interesting sociological effect, which presumably happens with anybody who sets up their camp outside of the established areas. They need a base, as it were. This there's a kind of fractal quality of this, like each layer you go it seems to replicate itself. So whenever anybody tries to cross the streams and do a little creationism and a little velokovski at once, valokovski can't tolerate it,. The creationists can’t tolerate it either. And so even if you are on the fringe, any question of your legitimacy is so sensitive, because your legitimacy, you're clinging on by your finger nails. Ah, you have much more aggressive
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