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[Kasz216]

Mendicate Bias said:

Kasz216 said:

Mendicate Bias said:

I get that it can be annoying but professors are people like you or me. No person is completely unbiased and no matter how hard they try their own opinions will always leak through.

What your supposed to do is absorb the raw information they give you and use it in your own way. If you disagree with a professor then do a study or experiment and prove him wrong. That is how science advances.

And that that scientist claims  a dozen reasons why your study is wrong (even though it isn't) and ignores progress until he dies or retires.

People have an idealized view of science... but the truth is, very rarely is a new truth aloud to live until the old guard "Dies out".

In political sociences... oh boy, it's worse. 

If you can prove your position with a reproducible experiment or mathematics then it doesn't matter how stubborn the "old guard" is. Especially in todays age where each paper is put through a peer review of many researchers before publication. There is no way a single person could stop a paper from being published.

Also just because someone publishes a controversial paper doesn't mean everyone in their field is supposed to automatically accept their view. It is natural for there to be hesitance to ideas that change established thought. After sufficient evidence is brought forward that hesitance dissolves away and becomes a thing of the past.

Do you have any examples of such a thing occurring in the last 30 or 40 years. 

Yes.  Every theory EVER.

Have you ever submitted anything through the peer review process?  That's exactly what the peer review process is 90% of the time. 

Have you ever debated a scientific paper you've done with someone?  That's literally exactly what happens when you disprove their theory... because scientsits REALLY want to be right, because it gives you more glory, renown and tenure.

There has been no great change since "The Structure of Scientific Models" came out.

People pretty much never except the controversial until the "old guard" is gone or marginalzied.  If the math is solid, everyone in the field SHOULD accept the new view... at least if it's more solid then the old view.

Too much time is wasted on old methods because they are the "familiar" methods.