RE: Brace yourselves for gravitational waves
February 14, 2016 at 8:51 am
(This post was last modified: February 14, 2016 at 9:45 am by Alex K.)
Look, I agree that there tends to be too much pressure to follow mainstream topics and fads in order to get published and advance your career, especially on young researchers. But I am allergic to this idea regularly propagated by people on the fringe that everyone following far out ideas is a misunderstood and suppressed genius, and the entire scientific establishment is made up of people who suppress any unusual ideas. That is just highly insulting. The field is full of excellent scientists who are more than eager to entertain unusual ideas and do so on a regular basis, but if you hang on to propositions too long that have been rendered unlikely by new observations, and don't stay on top of current developments, you will very quickly lose support.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
