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Title:
Sociology of Modern Cosmology
Authors:
López-Corredoira, M.
Publication:
Cosmology Across Cultures ASP Conference Series, Vol. 409, proceedings of the conference held 8-12 September, 2008, at Parque de las Ciencias, Granada, Spain. Edited by José Alberto Rubiño-Martín, Juan Antonio Belmonte, Francisco Prada, and Antxon Alberdi. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2009., p.66
Publication Date:
08/2009
Origin:
ASP
Bibliographic Code:
2009ASPC..409...66L

Abstract

Certain results of observational cosmology cast critical doubt on the foundations of standard cosmology but leave most cosmologists untroubled. Alternative cosmological models that differ from the Big Bang have been published and defended by heterodox scientists; however, most cosmologists do not heed these. This may be because standard theory is correct and all other ideas and criticisms are incorrect, but it is also to a great extent due to sociological phenomena such as the ``snowball effect'' or ``groupthink''. We might wonder whether cosmology, the study of the Universe as a whole, is a science like other branches of physics or just a dominant ideology.

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