Michael Gordin, “Science and Pseudoscience” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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The Central Dilemma
If you're too conservative, if you don't allow any heterodox views in whatoever, then you're not going to have any innovation. You cand allow a little bit of innovation, but very, very little. Many of the new ideas are now crazy when you look back, but at the timebefor before there was a neutron, people were willing to let them go through. Another classic instance afsumeing that's rejected as too inovative and later comes to be thought of as actually true is continental drift.
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