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:This is nothing new. The history of science is littered with it. I'm reading [[Farley Mowat]]'s 1963 book ''Never Cry Wolf'', in which he exposes prejudice in the scientific establishment in Canada. People lose their jobs when they upset the applecart, especially when they use the leverage of facts (see [[Whistleblower]]). --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] 11:37, 2 May 2007 (EDT)
:This is nothing new. The history of science is littered with it. I'm reading [[Farley Mowat]]'s 1963 book ''Never Cry Wolf'', in which he exposes prejudice in the scientific establishment in Canada. People lose their jobs when they upset the applecart, especially when they use the leverage of facts (see [[Whistleblower]]). --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] 11:37, 2 May 2007 (EDT)
There seems to be a common fallacy that scientists are all about maintaining the status quo. But new discoveries are the driving force in science. New discoveries are what win Nobel prizes, and get big research grants, and get papers in prestigious journals. The peer review/paradigm system introduces a certain amount of inertia into the system which can be counterproductive (occasionally good research can be rejected initially) but in most instances helps to winnow out anomalous or wrong results. [[User:Aloysius|Aloysius]] 11:45, 2 May 2007 (EDT)