Nature
Nearly all fields of inquiry are captured. The university gatekeepers in physics, chemistry, biology, political science, sociology, art, etc. have hired people who think and act exactly like they do, and this continued for five generations until all disciplines have become a hollow imitation of their former selves and there has not been much real innovation in a century. This has produced an epistemic crisis because so many things are either factually wrong (owing to corruption) or obviously outdated. However, one is not allowed to break paradigms without getting attacked.
Background
Incidence
In 2021, controversy erupted at the University of California, San Francisco, when researchers faced institutional resistance for publishing findings that contradicted prevailing views on Alzheimer’s disease pathology. This incident highlighted how scientific dogmatism can hinder open debate and slow the advancement of alternative hypotheses.
Claim
Karl Popper’s An Open Society and Its Enemies and Paul Feyerabend’s Against Method give us tools for unlearning dogma and starting innovative scientific inquiry again. We need to have a big, messy, on-going conversation about the philosophy of science in order to break free from this stagnant era.