Geoffrey MillerVerified account

They require larger teams because individual scientist quality has degraded. They do their work in the day, drink soda, go home and watch mindless Netflix. Very few modern people in the field of science are open to the inspiration and sudden understandings that mark history.

How did the change come to happen? Is it due to post secondary education becoming more inclusive rather than demanding? Has education become a chore or a requirement for a job as opposed to a hobby? That is the question.

What can be discussed in public? what about in private scientific cloisters? Where is our ability to communicate being hampered? Is it the standards? The reverence for our senior faculty? Government approval? is it linguistics? Have we created a culture intolerant to change?

A PhD Student recently identified an entire new Kingdom of life, on a par with fungi and animalia, that sounds like pretty hard science to me.

I have observed that there’s actually two separate Overton windows in America, and they’ve diverged over the years such that the gap which ideas must fit through and remain acceptable has gotten much smaller. Venn Diagram style.