Perhaps I can add one factor: The neglect of the human intuitive faculty.
P. At 11:36 AM 9/4/2006 +0100, you wrote:
All, Isn't all this steorn bandwidth a good example of the need for peer review and going to school? I amazed by the masses' gullibility. It's too easy to claim conspiracies, big oil etc. The biggest factors are: 1) Limit of human intellect - inventors too. 2) Academic conservatism and envy, just common or garden human envy and unproductiveness. 3) Gullibility and going with the flow. 4) Lack of patience to do good work and have it accepted by even the most conservative. 5) Limited resources. R.P. Feynman had it right in Cargo-Cult Science: The ships never land even though they've apparently painted the landing strip and turned on the lights! Same old, same old, told you so. R.
