Won’t be published in any journals, thus won’t ever be cited, thus will never have any impact. It’s a closed shop, and those in power are exercising their power.
We should do it anyway, make our own university, do science and education on more than just STEM related subjects, as science can be applied to anything, we can study history, art, and politics the same way, and we will do it for the love of truth, even if we are rejected, we do it purely for the love of discovery and teaching, and our students come to us purely for the love of learning.
Do this, and eventually we will gain more and more credibility for our honesty and integrity, for our love of science, which triumphs over the politics of it, to walk a difficult path of the outcast, being mocked and persecuted, yet ignoring the slings and arrows and carrying on regardless.
Scientists who are fed up with the politics that turned their noble pursuit of truth into a religion, will flock to us eventually, if we persist long enough, parents from our corner of the poliical landscape will send their children to us to get a quality education.
And they, who dominate the old corrupted world of science, will start to wane in influence, as their well known lack of integrity is deadly as soon as their monopoly is taken from them, everyone on the inside knows they are liars and cheats, the only thing holding most honest people in compliance is having no place else to go, give them somewhere to escape to, and they will defect to us.
This is how you win, this is how you achieve greatness, by doing what you can, fighting for what you love, even when it looks hopeless.
It’s like you’re describing the foundation of the royal society, and the resistance those kind of ideas faced as they expanded into church controlled areas. You’re correct or course, but we did this 400 years ago. Another century or so before we rediscover the enlightenment at this rate.
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