11 years ago in 2012, Dr. William Glen Editor-at-Large of the Standford University Press in an interview with David Boulton said that institutional science defends its paradigms in ways that 'disable' the kind of 'open learning' that science should be about.
He said paradigm inertia is the resistance to changing paradigms. There are many reasons paradigms are hard to change, some are scientific, but the most powerful reasons are personal, emotional, and unscientific.
The psychological and economic motives of people whose reputations and incomes depend on their association with a paradigm are at cross purpose with scientifically learning to evaluate a challenge to their paradigm.
