Thoughts on The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Thomas S. Kuhn states that a good indicator of disparate studies coalescing into a paradigm of science is when new discoveries are not published in books for the learned public at large, but, rather, published in letters and essays addressed to peers of the same discipline. This exclusivity and use of esoteric knowledge is necessary to shed the implicit fundamental knowledge from scientific literature. This has the unfortunate consequence, however, of alienating the public from such a discourse. My guess is that this paradigm eventually becomes bloated and heavy so as to impinge upon scientific progress as well as become unbearable to a public they may no longer be seeing the positive affects of this particular science. This seems like the standard cycle of the scientific paradigm as I am sure I will find out later on the book (I’ve only read 2 chapters).