@Ionus,
Quote: I thought you had lectured at Uni ? You would be well aware of the ignorance in the teaching staff. You would also be aware of the need for students to conform to pass assessment.
I believe you are confusing Ignorance (which with a cap I is what we base our researches upon). To accept ignorance of a subjects bones and structure, doesnt allow one to participate in any higher research or teaching. 99.99% of students need to be taught the basics of a subject in order to qualify for entrance into the realm of the "Big I"
There are a very few who, by being gifted, are able to conduct meaningful reasearch as a science colleague while they are still in their early teens. But even these kids must learn the facts and calcs and the structures of the subject they follow.
At a university, we spend more time inviting research funding than teaching. We teach grad students by inviting them to participate in this research. (Thats how I learned my craft) However, the basic rules of the science are gotten in the undergrad level. If you feel that many scientists are ignorant (in that they are deficient in their fields), these possibilities have ways of making themselves recognized and dealt with. If a tenured faculty publishes bogus research, that faculty member would be disciplined and could even be terminated by special circumstances .
