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Wesley Marshall's avatar

We live in an environment where people continue to celebrate with joy the murder of domestic political opponents. Scott Galloway, a critic of violence, seems to have engaged in stochastic terrorism in calling for Elon Musk to be treated the same as executed traitors. It seems we’re on the edge of political violence on a scale similar to the Great Terror. How can we focus on humanity’s long term future if our near-term future is in such dire straits?

ToDs's avatar

Dear Doctor Weinstein, how would you organize scientific research to avoid the fact that in several domains, out the box thinking or results that do not fit the main theory of the day are stifled or censored, such as is the case for fundamental physics, archeology, or all climate-related science ? What do you think about the idea that the current hyper specialisation journey of a researcher (through master, PhDs, and post doc,...) constrain scientific free thinking, meaning that we have now only 'experts' where before we had 'savant' ?

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