The Failure of Modern Academic Thinking.
The reality of anomalies and all its implications is arguably the biggest revelation in human history.
But after more than 50 years of clear indications of this reality academia/scientific community continues to ignore/dismiss and many times actively deny the reality of anomalies.
This is not a unique instance in the history of science where Official Science denied or ignored the reality of new facts or ideas, far from it, many times the so called "scientific community" had been behind on new developments, they are not always in the "cutting edge" of knowledge as they try to paint themselves, many times is far from it.
Related to this is the suppression of new ideas in scientific circles, the "herd mentality" is deeply rooted in academia and that lead to the rejection of ideas that are not socially accepted. The suppression of new ideas in academic circles is not as rare as they also try to picture. A quick search in the literature will reveal that this had been documented multiple times.
Reductionism is deeply rooted in modern scientific thinking, the widely use of parsimony: the "principle" that a reduced set of properties/axioms can be used to "explain" reality. That is the result of emulating the "success" of that approach in Mathematics. Sometimes we see the extreme of that reductionist approach in the search for a "theory of everything". But even in Mathematics that approach had been proved to have intrinsic limitations with the Godel's incompleteness theorems.
This reductionist mentality lead to complacency because it assumes that almost all new phenomena can be explained/reduced to known manifestations even more in phenomena that can look at first sight as a normal occurrence, the tendency to dismiss such occurences as mundane is everywhere.
But the reality of anomalies, that can be verified by anyone by direct observations, clearly shows the colossal failure of modern academic thinking. That failure is even more stressed by the fact that the reality of anomalies was revealed and continue to be documented by people with no academic ties and people in academia, showing clear intellectual cowardice, still shamelessly are unable to touch the topic.
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