[tomcam]

On quick inspection, his experiments seem to be fairly well controlled. I will venture a guess that they are a little better than average, and we know that only half of studies can be replicated.

Assuming that his data is fairly clean, I don’t see why it’s out of the realm of possibility that he could be contributing substantially to neuroscience no matter what is academic background. The results should speak for themselves.

IMHO academia is incredibly broken anyway, and the tenure system has had the opposite effect of it as was intended. Professors are now so desperate to keep tebure they do nothing to challenge the orthodoxy and everything to crush those who do.

[mnk47]

> On quick inspection, his experiments seem to be fairly well controlled

What experiments?