[FRIAM] Science Commits Suicide

[Jochen Fromm]

In a sense globalism is a Ponzi scheme for exploitation of workers which has now started to reache its limits. Companies outsource the production to eastern European countries which outsource it to China which outsource it to the Uighurs and North Korea and so on and so forth. But the number of countries is finite, and for the Uighurs in the concentration camps it is hell.The Jeffrey Epstein system was a kind of sex offender Ponzi scheme from all I have heard so far (which involved Mar-a-Lago too as recruiting pool).Maybe science is sometimes a kind of Ponzi scheme for academics? A professor needs staff to make publications, and all of the junior academics in this staff need staff as well to become a professor. But you can only discover America or Quantum Mechanics once. What happens then as an unintended consequence is that people start to learn how to play the game. They produce scientific papers that look like papers and feel like papers but which do not contain real scientific insights. I believe we all know these papers well. People produce them because they have to it if they want to keep their job.-J.
-------- Original message --------From: Jon Zingale <jonzingale at gmail.com> Date: 6/2/20  16:43  (GMT+01:00) To: friam at redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Science Commits Suicide Jochen,I tend to agree with your analysis of Eric, Bret, and the DISC.The hat of Roger Penrose that I am most interested in, andthat I am thankful to Eric for accessing, is Penrose as Geometer.It is a take and a history that doesn't get the same air time thatmore pop-science oriented ideas get. Sometimes I feel that this ishow the DISC, or perhaps a an economic variant, operates in thepublic sphere of youtube and social media. There are these veryinteresting minds, capable of offering very rich historical insight,doing the pop-intellectual circuit lecturing on something elsealtogether. I am thankful for this interview because it shows thatthe commons need not be tragic.Jon
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