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Frank Tipler: Could Einstein Be Published Under Today’s Peer-Review Policies?

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Frank Tipler
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On this episode of ID the Future, Dr. Frank Tipler discusses how leading science journals are increasingly hostile to new ideas, publishing only papers that are consistent with the dominant views of the scientific community. Tipler argues that if Einstein were to try and get a paper on his relativity theory published under today’s peer-review system, he would certainly be rejected, reminding us that academia needs to encourage scientists to challenge conformity in order to cultivate great thinkers.

Frank Tipler

FRANK J. TIPLER is Professor of Mathematical Physics at Tulane University. He is the author of The Physics of Immortality, about the ultimate limits of computers and the role computers will play in the universe; The Physics of Christianity; and (with John Barrow) The Anthropic Cosmological Principle, about fine tuning and the significance of intelligent life in the universe.
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Einstein
Frank Tipler