It would be difficult to develop new ideas if everyone you associated with was hostile to them. The varying degrees of safety provided by the exclusion of people and ideas opposed to certain forms of knowledge is thus an often unacknowledged part of knowledge work. However, whilst this can be benign, it can also lead…
When the safety of being right makes change hard – Introducing the Epistemic Bunker — Impact of Social Sciences
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