I will now open my eyes to the current state of the humanities and, to a lesser extent, the natural sciences.
Every more or less large scholar has a Theory and there is Self-Consciousness.
The theory is usually called the "torsion field". Or "Dialectics number 42". Or "The main way of development of matter."
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Conceit requires the husband to achieve universal acceptance of the theory of the omnipotent, because true. To recognize a scientist, you need Authority. Authority in the scientific world is acquired through publications.
Next action:
The scientist publishes an article describing the Theory and speaks at the conference.
Ten clever opponents are crushing the article to smithereens, and at the conference they mix the scientist with mud.
The scientist publishes ten more articles developing Theory, and speaks at ten conferences.
Ten smart opponents are straining, but they smash ten articles to pieces. In turn, they go to ten conferences where they perform a ritual of mud therapy.
Twenty-five graduate students and five doctoral scholars publish one hundred articles on the Theory and make hundreds of reports at conferences. They are all, in general, the Theory is indifferent, they have a goal to defend their dissertation. What the scientist says, they will write, for the most part. Articles are published in popular publications, they are picked up by the priests of plebeian journalism.
Ten opponents. And there are ten of them, because there are few smart people. So, ten opponents throw their own works, dig up, but just do not have time to refute a hundred articles and go to a hundred conferences.
Voila! Theory has many publications. There are few statements against theory. Recognition comes through quantity: “A lie told a hundred times becomes true” - this is Dr. Goebbels said so, and he has reached transcendental heights in the art of propaganda. Public recognition and authority (and with them grants) find a scientist. Voila!
Oh, and when administrative and state resources are connected to the case, what then begins the movement!
Natural sciences are more fortunate; they have an institute of independent experiments. However, even here the forces are not enough to defeat the "biomatrices" and other New Age.
What are the antidotes? Authoritative scientific journals. Yes. But people work there too, and people somehow always take into account the hundreds of thousands of lemmings. The best antidote is your own common sense and rational thinking. The development of literacy (natural science!) Society as a whole.