Re:A Physicist Who Denies Dark Matter
by joeberon on Saturday May 20, 2017 @12:56PM
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Yeah there's a huge amount of politics in research IN GENERAL, but not so much in physics. Like there are no big questions covered up because they're inconvenient or anything.
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I think the commenter meant politics in the "office politics"/"playing politics" sense, not the "political party" sense
the big bang theory was dismissed for decades. Even Einstein said to someone suggesting it that his physics was "abominable".
> the big bang theory was dismissed for decades.
Dismissing a theory that is (now known to be) right is not necessarily political; it can be just a mistake. There are certainly cliques that are invested in believing the orthodoxy, but there are ways in the hard sciences of absolutely disproving that orthodoxy; and, though they are subject to fierce scrutiny, as they should be, they can be, and have been, accepted after surviving that scrutiny.
it can be but you offered no evidence contrary. the data WAS there, but it conflicted with their well established views, call them political or not - it doesn't matter.
it would take a great deal of hubris to say 'yes, all other sciences and research suffer from the human condition, but not physics!'