Ok, that answers my question. I won't comment on the rest except to say that I don't think I have the same views about how science works (or should work) that you do. But scientists all have the freedom to choose what to work on, so ultimately that will determine how all this plays out.
> You brought it up in a paragraph with the theme of "how the community should change"
To be clear, nothing I have posted in this thread was intended to make any such claim. As I have said all along, I was only interested in a specific answer to a specific question, which you have now made clear. As I noted just above, scientists are all free to choose what they will work on, and I have no issue with that at all. Kroupa is free to express his opinions about more general questions like "how the community should change", and other scientists are free to ignore him, which is what seems to be happening. All of that is beyond the scope of what I was asking about.
Ok, that answers my question. I won't comment on the rest except to say that I don't think I have the same views about how science works (or should work) that you do. But scientists all have the freedom to choose what to work on, so ultimately that will determine how all this plays out.
> You brought it up in a paragraph with the theme of "how the community should change"
To be clear, nothing I have posted in this thread was intended to make any such claim. As I have said all along, I was only interested in a specific answer to a specific question, which you have now made clear. As I noted just above, scientists are all free to choose what they will work on, and I have no issue with that at all. Kroupa is free to express his opinions about more general questions like "how the community should change", and other scientists are free to ignore him, which is what seems to be happening. All of that is beyond the scope of what I was asking about.