>Doesn't that make you wonder? Just what do you need to
do to get a "good/practical" idea widely accepted?
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If you are interested in this phenomenon, I would highly recommend a book
by an MIT professor, Dr. Thomas Kuhn, titled the Structure of Scientific
Revolution. It answered a lot of questions that I had about how misguided
CRM theories could become mainstream and control program development
efforts.
I found a parallel in early aviation history. In the late 1800's and early
1900's a researcher named Samuel Langley was given large research grants
from the U.S. Government to build the first airplane. He suffered some
very visable failures. Meanwhile, two bicycle makers from Ohio succeeded
with very little formal support.
The moral I found in all this is:
Just because a researcher gets funded and/or has a large following doesn't
necessarily mean that he or she is right. The recent U.S. GAO report on
CRM highlighted this point quite well.
Best Regards,
Vince Mancuso
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