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To: djf

There is only one way, and that is through the scientific journals. After the reputation is established then perhaps some funding might be forthcoming, but the average scientist will not be equipped to combat the tenured behemoths and will lose control of the project immediately. Good ideas don't get it done. So it is really heavy articles in peer-reviewed journals and then top-level, dominant management of enterprises. It's a rare combination, but needed if we are to ever break through this brick wall.


114 posted on 03/23/2006 7:24:02 PM PST by RightWhale (pas de lieu, Rhone que nous)
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To: RightWhale

Gonna be difficult and face alot of opposition.

There was a fellow years ago who liked to play with glass beads. He tried looking through them.

He sent post after post to the schools and places of higher learning telling them about the strange new world he had discovered and was ignored for along time, he had no formal education or training.

His name was Leeuwenhoek and he was one of the first inventors of the microscope.


The dynamics of having large segments of the educated giving up their beliefs is daunting. We often see it on threads like these. And had I spent decades learning something, I would be just as equally set in my ways, I don't fault folks, it's the human thing to do.

But it will be a necessary part of the learning experience to admit we might have been wrong about something.




116 posted on 03/23/2006 7:34:55 PM PST by djf (Deal??? Tell the banker to bite me!!!)
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