The immortal Charles Fort likens Big Science to a vacant-minded larva that spins its suffocating web over any non-conventional ideas:
Opposing us is the more or less well-established conventional doctrine that has spun like a cocoon around mind upon this earth, shutting off research, and stifling even speculation, shelling away all data of relations and relatability with external existences, a doctrine that, in its various explanations and disregards and denials, is unified in one expression of Exclusionism. —
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