36.
Academic Snobbery and the Journal of Scientific
Exploration
2008-02-13
Guests:
Dr. Peter Sturrock, on academic snobbery. Hard-core
skeptic
Dr Clive Wynne,
and Ethologist Dr. Marc Bekoff on whether controversial
science encounters a double-standard when published.
Sturrock on the legitimacy of the Journal of Scientific
Exploration: “…this depends on whether
we think that science is all worked out or whether
it's, let's say, an ongoing process. If we think
that scientists know all there is to know, then there
is
no need for the, the Journal for Scientific Exploration,
but if we think science is an ongoing process that
has problems to work through and work out, and some
of which are ignored by mainstream science, and many
of which are of interest to the public, then there's
a real need for the Journal of Scientific Exploration." (read
the transcript)
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