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John Carter's avatar

Charlatanry is definitely a hazard. But there's already a whole lot of that in the existing system. IMO the most effective way of mitigating this is to make debate as open as possible.

As to transformative breakthroughs coming from the study of obscure subjects, well yes this does happen, but this argument is also used to justify the funding of a great amount of obscure trivia which doesn't lead anywhere.

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Yuri Bezmenov's avatar

This begs the question - what real scientific breakthroughs have been made at universities over the past few decades?

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