So is culture. Are you ready to demand culture-neutrality?
If scientists who expressed a particular belief about science were killed, that would apply to scientists too
Would that apply also to scientists who were prevented from getting grants and being published? How do you know, without hindsight, which of the two warring scientific factions consists of cranks and crooks, and which one does not?
So is culture. Are you ready to demand culture-neutrality?
It is possible for a culture to at least not be inimical to truth. But to the extent that a religion is not inimical to truth, it has ceased to be a religion.
Would that apply also to scientists who were prevented from getting grants and being published?
If the main reason why scientists don’t express a belief is that if they do they would be arbitrarily denied grants and publication, then it would apply. However, in the modern Western world, almost every example* where someone made this claim has turned out to be a crank whose lack of publication was for very good reasons. As such, my default assumption will be that this has not occurred unless I have a specific reason to believe that it has.
I can think of a few cases involving politically correct subjects but those tend to have other kinds of problems.
So is culture. Are you ready to demand culture-neutrality?
Would that apply also to scientists who were prevented from getting grants and being published? How do you know, without hindsight, which of the two warring scientific factions consists of cranks and crooks, and which one does not?
It is possible for a culture to at least not be inimical to truth. But to the extent that a religion is not inimical to truth, it has ceased to be a religion.
If the main reason why scientists don’t express a belief is that if they do they would be arbitrarily denied grants and publication, then it would apply. However, in the modern Western world, almost every example* where someone made this claim has turned out to be a crank whose lack of publication was for very good reasons. As such, my default assumption will be that this has not occurred unless I have a specific reason to believe that it has.
I can think of a few cases involving politically correct subjects but those tend to have other kinds of problems.