The best test of the truth is its ability to prevail in a loud, vigorous, and sustained debate.
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I agree with this, and that determining truth from multiple irrefutable options must rest on pragmatics or beauty. But I do think we'd benefit from an intellectual milieu where learned experts were given an interest and venue for stating the opposing case to the academy's dogmas.
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Sure, good idea in theory but the same forces that drive the academy to accepting a dogma and suppressing all dissent will drive them to infiltrate and assimilate the alternative milieu. If you can solve that you can solve the original problem - belling the cat
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