[PIF]

And yet again, “science” can only advance one death at a time.

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What in the world do you mean? No one has died in this article.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Hawass, as the official Director of Egyptian Antiquities, was an ardent supporter of the status quo. No new ideas, no new exploration permitted - other than by his approval. In short, he exercised rigid, absolute control over all things pertaining to Egyptian archeology; his way or the highway - which could mean being banned from Egypt entirely.

See? Until this single person dies - now in total control of the research and the “facts” of whatever will be found from any research, and in total control of access to the foundations and rocks and tombs and quarries where “new facts” may be found - there will never be any chance of different theories or different “facts” being being discovered.

Do I exaggerate? Not really. The men and women he appoints and has indoctrinated in many other departments and universities and labs and museums have been indoctrinated as well - but their ideas are often slightly different, sometimes correctly different. Sometimes incorrect. But never exactly the same. Few important new scientific discoveries are made after the new challenging, interesting, exploratory young scientist has become the old, experienced, entrenched and established scientist.

The same process of group-think and locking out opposing ideas happens in nuclear physics (fusion in particular), in economic theory, in global warming propaganda and research, in biology, etc.

[zeugma]

And yet again, “science” can only advance one death at a time.
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What in the world do you mean? No one has died in this article.

I suspect it's a cynical statement about how science advances. In order for new ideas to advance, the old guard clinging to the past must die off. A cynical idea, but largely true,