While I’m stealing post ideas from Twitter, here’s another poll question, thanks to Eric Weinstein, who wrote earlier:
And @CameronNeylon, when you write “Good science means not having an (emotional) allegiance to any theory surely?” I must strongly disagree.
This position results from the luxury of living on the far side of an adaptive valley which long ago was crossed by others.
So, here’s another poll:
(This was in the context of a running series of ruminations about academic organization, but it’s sort of interesting even as a free-floating question.)