THE DANGERS OF A TOTAL STATE OF SCIENCE AS A REGULATORY MECHANISM FOR THE CREATION OF NEW KNOWLEDGE

Abstract

From the first sentence of the Leyden Manifesto the implications of a totalitarian State of Science are shown, the imposition of the data as the law of this state, the exclusion of other methods and many possible worlds of research, as well as the submission and control of the mind and body of the investigating being, subjected to a series of processes to be considered rigorously scientific and not abnormal. To exemplify this, we conclude with four examples: the requirement of references only the most current works, the requirement to write thesis projects in ten or fifteen pages, the standardized forms of citing, APA type and the overlapping of the data and the rubrics above peer evaluation