jimrandomh comments on Philosophy: A Diseased Discipline - Less Wrong

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Comment author: jimrandomh 30 March 2011 04:07:27PM *  6 points [-]

(2) appears to reject any discipline that ignores quantum mechanics entirely, or which pays attention to quantum mechanics but whose practitioners consider themselves too confused about it to challenge the consensus position.

(3) appears to reject almost all of academia. In particular, it rejects disciplines stuck at the common equilibrium of closed-access journals combined with authors publishing the same articles on their own web pages.