Authors :
Sujay Rao Mandavilli
Volume/Issue :
Volume 9 - 2024, Issue 1 - January
Google Scholar :
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Scribd :
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DOI :
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10473843
Abstract :
There is often an inordinate time span from the
time a new idea is gestated till it is widely accepted in
scientific and in popular circles, with wide variations
commonly observed across geographies and disciplines.
This elapsed time may be referred to as the ‘latency
period’ for the acceptance, or even a structured and a
justified rejection, as the case may be, of new or novel
ideas. This can be observed in most societies around the
world, unfortunately even in more advanced ones. There is
also a variation across geographies to the detriment of
developing countries, and across disciplines to the
detriment of various fields in the social sciences. Indeed,
we have analyzed the possible root causes of all these in
our paper, and all these must be systematically addressed,
and new or other root causes identified. This would form a
part of what some experts consider a “time crashing”
technique. Reducing this latency period will lead to
scientific progress at a much higher rate, or “Scientific
progress at the speed of light” as we would like to call it.
There are many ways to do this. The first would be to
improve the education system on the principles we had laid
out in our published paper on “Anthropological
Pedagogy” and the “Sociology of science”. The second
would be to build a robust twenty-first century
intellectualism involving the negation of all ideologies
which should greatly serve to set the house in order; we
have deliberated, and written at length about all these in
earlier times. This latency period we believe can be greatly
brought down if science becomes a much more global
activity, and the ideas and ideals of the “Globalization of
science” movement that we have been championing all
along are accomplished. Thus, we would effectively be
killing two birds with one stone.
There is often an inordinate time span from the
time a new idea is gestated till it is widely accepted in
scientific and in popular circles, with wide variations
commonly observed across geographies and disciplines.
This elapsed time may be referred to as the ‘latency
period’ for the acceptance, or even a structured and a
justified rejection, as the case may be, of new or novel
ideas. This can be observed in most societies around the
world, unfortunately even in more advanced ones. There is
also a variation across geographies to the detriment of
developing countries, and across disciplines to the
detriment of various fields in the social sciences. Indeed,
we have analyzed the possible root causes of all these in
our paper, and all these must be systematically addressed,
and new or other root causes identified. This would form a
part of what some experts consider a “time crashing”
technique. Reducing this latency period will lead to
scientific progress at a much higher rate, or “Scientific
progress at the speed of light” as we would like to call it.
There are many ways to do this. The first would be to
improve the education system on the principles we had laid
out in our published paper on “Anthropological
Pedagogy” and the “Sociology of science”. The second
would be to build a robust twenty-first century
intellectualism involving the negation of all ideologies
which should greatly serve to set the house in order; we
have deliberated, and written at length about all these in
earlier times. This latency period we believe can be greatly
brought down if science becomes a much more global
activity, and the ideas and ideals of the “Globalization of
science” movement that we have been championing all
along are accomplished. Thus, we would effectively be
killing two birds with one stone.
