One thing that stifles progress today is the fact that our “scientific” research process is so corrupted by fiat that just because something is published research, doesn’t make it true. Most research has a reproducibility problem, and we continue down these paths since lying and misdirection ensures control and obfuscation of the realities of where we are.
Discussion
Was discussing this very thing this morning. Who is funding the research and what do they stand to gain from the results being reported?
I wonder what percentage of the results being published - and especially what gets promoted outside of scholarly journals - don’t align with the financial and political best interests of those ultimately funding them. I suspect a very small percentage, and, even then, it gets intentionally buried.