Bob Harrison writes

>>>Many researchers are working with "a hand tied behind their back" by
always worried about "peer pressure" and having to be careful of their
opinions. <<<

I think it is worse than that frankly.  Prior to "Reganomics", the byword
was "publish or perish", afterwards it was "find your own research
funds".  It is not so much "peer pressure" as it is "grantor pressure".
Negative evidence was never very popular but has become the "kiss of
death" in the current climate.  Ace "widget" Industries isn't going to be
a repeat "customer/grantor" if you find, in the course of your research
they have largely funded, that Ace "widgets", or even any other "widget",
are not all they are cracked up to be.

>>>I have no such hang-up!<<<

You are also effectively "self funded", most researchers should be so
lucky.  Look at what Bud Cale was able to accomplish with his in-law's,
if I recall correctly, deep pockets.

Rip

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