Learning on ScreenAhead of Their Time
- Synopsis
- This 30-minute programme Peter Evans investigates how science deals with new ideas and asks whether a conservative establishment is stifling creative research and science is merely a consensus of what the scientific community thinks it is?
If someone appears to be outside the mainstream, there is a natural tendency to reject them. To accept their ideas might undermine your own research, even make your career seem "pointless". So they are ignored, vilified, dismissed or worse. But, by closing its doors, the establishment often holds back progress that might have real benefits. Some critics have argued for a complete reassessment of the scientific process and declared that an anarchistic approach, "against method", would deliver as much - if not more - discovery than the narrow mindedness which is currently accepted. - Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Year of release
- 2005
- Year of production
- 2002
- Notes
- Broadcast on Radio 4 on 18/12/2002
- Subjects
- Philosophy; Science
- Keywords
- history of science; philosophy of science; scientific research
Online availability
- URI
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/aheadoftheirtime.shtml
- Price
- free
- Delivery
- Streamed
Production Company
- Name
BBC Radio 4
- Web
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4 External site opens in new window
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