Jed is right, there is no committee that decide of truths. Just network of interest where committee and leaders are super-nodes, because they can drown the other in pits of stupidity without the other having any chance to survive... so better to follow happily and die, rather than oppose and die. that is how delusion wins. note that initially it is a rational opinion, but with time it became a delusion because people are too much committed in an error, and have to ignore facts. It is aggravated by people depending on others more important people that are delusioned, and who make their own individual opinion without good consequence.
it is well described in Benabou papers http://www.princeton.edu/~rbenabou/papers/Groupthink%20IOM%207p%20paper.pdf http://www.princeton.edu/~rbenabou/papers/Patterns%20of%20Denial%204l%20fin.pdf 2013/3/6 a.ashfield <a.ashfi...@verizon.net> > Jed wrote. > > *The "scientific establishment" is an abstraction. It is not a real body. > There is no single group constituting that establishment that meets in a > building somewhere, like a Congress, and reaches unanimous conclusions. > Even if a majority of scientists remain unconvinced by a good > demonstration, thousands of others will be convinced.*** > > There may not be an official body, but it sure acts like one. > Consider AGW and Climate Scientists for example. > They surely speak with one voice and support each other, even when the facts > are against them. > > Cnsider DoE's response. Their official policy is not to support LENR. > I think you underestimate the group think of physicists. > > >
