> It is nearly impossible that an entire field of study will succumb to bias
It's happened before, especially when a select few command the majority of the field's grants/publications. If you are interested in how this could happen, here's an example of where basically the entirety of the Alzheimer's disease research field of study succumbed to bias:
It's happened before, especially when a select few command the majority of the field's grants/publications. If you are interested in how this could happen, here's an example of where basically the entirety of the Alzheimer's disease research field of study succumbed to bias:
https://www.statnews.com/2019/06/25/alzheimers-cabal-thwarte...
as well as the HN discussion on it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21911225