SilasBarta comments on Some Heuristics for Evaluating the Soundness of the Academic Mainstream in Unfamiliar Fields - Less Wrong

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Comment author: SilasBarta 17 February 2011 04:24:41AM 1 point [-]

Refer to the linked discussion thread, which links to accounts of actual layshadows -- they describe what fields they did this for in detail. It's as you'd expect: they could pull it off for everything except engineering and the hard sciences.