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And here the
3Pm=tangible multiplication of the process
of GOSSIP starts: In other words, there is a good deal of mopping-up to be
done. Mop-up operations are what engage most scientists throughout their careers. Mopping-up is what
normal science is all about!
This paradigm-based research is "an attempt to
force nature into the pre-formed and relatively inflexible box that the paradigm
supplies
". No effort is made to call forth new sorts of phenomena, no effort to discover anomalies. When anomalies
such (as you and
I) pop up, they are usually discarded or ignored in order to keep the science#2 community
b=balanced
. Anomalies are usually not even
noticed and no effort is made to invent a new theory (science#2 of course provides none for your
lifefulfillment with al that
entails), and there’s no tolerance for those who try (science#3). Those restrictions, born
from confidence in a c3-man-made
paradigm, turn out to be essential to the development of science. By focusing attention on a small
range of relatively esoteric
problems, the paradigm forces scientists to investigate some part of nature in a detail and depth that
would otherwise be
unimaginable" and, when the paradigm ceases to function properly, scientists begin to behave
differently and the nature of their
research problems changes in order to remain politically correct, e.g. not challenge science#2.
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