Fragmentation
Those who have
studied the Politics of knowledge cannot diversify.
Someone like Bruce Charlton,
http://corruption-of-science.blogspot.co.uk/
cannot link up with other researchers. He says he finds the corruption
by peer review cartels right across science, but his expertise is not
universal.
1 By saying such things he risks his career as a professor.
2 More serious, he cannot cooperate with other researchers. The number
of cranks suppressed by peer review greatly exceeds the number who have come
across real advances blocked by peer review cartels, as we probably saw in NPA.
The signal to noise ratio is poor.
https://www.desmogblog.com/sonja-boehmer-christiansen
Even if Sonja B-C and Bruce Charlton saw merit in the other,
they could not afford to unite their analyses, because "Defenders of the
Faith" would have an easier target for calumny. So even if they understood
and agreed with each others' analysis, they would have to keep apart. Solo,
their careers and reputations were already at risk.
http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x6611.htm
Details of the complex mechanism which
brought science to an end are complex, and fascinating.
Ivor Catt 13 May 2017