It’s good epistemic practice not only to have gatekeepers in science and scholarship, but also to have others beating at the gates to ensure the freedom of movement of ideas – using a battering ram, if required. In which measure it’s required is anyone’s guess. Too little force might result in stagnation, too much, a paradigm shift (which isn’t necessarily a bad thing).

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Tags: academic freedom, constraints, gatekeeping, Liberty, paradigm shift, scholarship, science, stagnation