" self-proclaimed heterodox-positioned authors tend to represent themselves as a minority in their research field, having difficulty accessing and influencing political decision-making processes. In contrast, orthodox-positioned authors tend to perceive their academic production as unpolitical and their analysis as objective and pragmatic in opposition to “militant” heterodox research. " Pretty similar? Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-020-00637-1 The authors of the paper take a "[A] relational approach " which I think is what I am doing as well. One approach is to just take up the position of your choice, but a second ossibility (in addition to just trying to be a critic, etc.) is to discuss the whole process of how a free society engages in discussions, which I am referring to here as the "opinion environment." The author of "A relational approach..." is Mehdi Arfaoui
As has often been said “I may not agree with what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
" self-proclaimed heterodox-positioned authors tend to represent themselves as a minority in their research field, having difficulty accessing and influencing political decision-making processes. In contrast, orthodox-positioned authors tend to perceive their academic production as unpolitical and their analysis as objective and pragmatic in opposition to “militant” heterodox research. " Pretty similar? Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-020-00637-1 The authors of the paper take a "[A] relational approach " which I think is what I am doing as well. One approach is to just take up the position of your choice, but a second ossibility (in addition to just trying to be a critic, etc.) is to discuss the whole process of how a free society engages in discussions, which I am referring to here as the "opinion environment." The author of "A relational approach..." is Mehdi Arfaoui
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