Re:How an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure
by SolaceQuantum on Monday December 30, 2019 @10:48AM
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Right, was the backlash against his global warming skepticism? I'm still confused.
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Re:How an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure
by amw on Monday December 30, 2019 @12:35PM
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The backlash against Crichton was well-founded. He used the grain of truth that it's sometimes hard to get new ideas in science funded to build a crazy denialist foundation on that made for exciting fiction, but terrible description of reality.
Re:How an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure
by Psyladine on Monday December 30, 2019 @11:31AM
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Yes, his stance on global warming was controversial at the time and as he died only a few years later is more well known for that, but for reasons he himself laid out in the linked talk.
Most relevant is that he was against consensus science, which was highlighted in the submission. Even if you are 'wrong' and in the group consensus, all is forgiven. If you are 'right' but not in the group, you are blackballed, and if you are wrong and not in the group consensus, you are crucified.