Robert Holmes wrote: > What I found worrying was > the claim (for which the author provides some limited evidence) that it > is now impossible to get on in physics academia unless you drink the > string theory kool-aid. Whither (or should that be wither) academic > freeedom?
This is a normal dynamic in science, first identified (in the popular mind) in Thomas Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions." http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0226458083 The interesting question to me is what will cause the next crisis, and when. - Martin ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
