[jrpear]

> This person mentioned Einstein, but Einstein was just the byproduct of a time when people had the balls to publish what could be perceived as extravagant theories.

As an outsider, while I can see many problems in academia today, I'm not sure that an exceptional fear to publish extravagant theories is one of them.

It seems to me that the opposite is true. The replication crisis is a symptom of a general unfriendliness towards uninteresting publications.

[loceng]

It's tough to gauge if someone's competent or not when they're speaking at a very high level in a domain you know nothing much about, and where very high level is at least an order of magnitude more difficult than high level. For this I've found myself leaking in corollaries such as Eric being able to have old time theoretical physicists on his podcast and having in-depth and flowing conversations with them.

[gowld]

Yes, he knows basic physics. but none of his sketches of novel theory has been substantiated by anyone.

[nbardy]

And they won’t be for a while. That’s why he’s working on it still.