Viral Topic: Why Thomas Kuhn Still Matters: "Kuhn actually gives a pretty decent account of establishment science, you know, in a sense, both its strengths and its weaknesses."

How Scientific Paradigms Shape Thinking: "You actually have a very systematic way of manufacturing people who think the same way in a way you really did not have before the middle of the 19th century."

Viral Topic: How Scientific Revolutions Happen
Quote: "But that window of opportunity then closes very quickly, and then you get the new paradigm, and then the new paradigm starts reproducing itself, right? And that's kind of Kuhn's view."

Viral Topic: The Enduring Influence of Social Agendas on Science: "historically, social agendas have indeed made their way into scientific thinking, usually in much subtler kinds of ways than what you've been describing."

Viral Topic: Should Society Oversee Science?: "The extent to which, you know, society ought to know what scientists are doing and in some sense ought to have a Say on what scientists are doing, at least from the funding standpoint or even in terms of what the assessment of science is."

Academic Censorship and Intelligent Design: "So there is effectively a kind of censorship which discourages the bringing up of certain kinds of explanatory principles."

Viral Topic: How Peer Review Limits Scientific Inquiry: "These kinds of judgments also get made by peer reviewers and they effectively, you know, close off lines of inquiry because you can't, you know, especially from the more impactful journals, right, the journals that more people in the field read, right, because they're basically being siphoned off and marginalized into, you know, Very often journals nobody reads."

Viral Topic: How AI Challenges Scientific Consensus: "I bet you will come up with ideas for hypotheses that the scientific establishment basically are systematically ignoring because of the path dependency of peer review."

Viral Topic: The Separation of Teaching and Research in Universities
Quote: "We're now in a situation where basically you have a class of people doing research and a class of people who teach. And this is a real problem, especially from the standpoint of the students experience, because I think the ideal of a university education is to have somebody teaching your course, including your introductory course, somebody who's kind of in the front lines of knowledge, bringing some of that enthusiasm, as it were, that they have in their research, bringing it into the classroom, and in a sense translating it to an audience that, you know, might get infected with the enthusiasm and go forward in some way pursue those ideas further, if not in a kind of professional capacity, at least take them in in general as part of their liberal arts, you know, liberal education. And I think we're losing that because I think the one, the one real selling point of a university, and I think this, you know, to my mind this is where I think the university will live or die, is if you can get good people who are, you know, research, active teaching."

Viral Topic: Conspiracy Theories as a Societal Indicator
"the presence of conspiracy theory is a real, it's like the canary in the mineshaft, right? It shows that there is a legitimation crisis in the establishment, if nothing else, right? You wouldn't have conspiracy theories if, if people actually believed what people were saying."