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Originally Posted by FredSnerd
Steven,
I don’t think that scientists conspire with each other to promote an established view.
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Claude - I see you are saying, and I agree, but only within the context of your discussion.
May I bring to your attention that scientists do in fact conspire. There is a Cold War going on for some time. The String Theorists (Ether viewpoint) and Standard Model (Fields in continuum) are vying heavily for big budgets and public support for pursuing their ideas/theories.
The gloves have been off for many years...Glashow refers to String Theory as a "Tumor" whos theory is "untestable and thus permenantly safe".
After some time and realisation, I remarked to my tutor, "there's more politics in science than there is science", to his reply, "you'd better believe it boy-o".