point:
Almost always the men who have achieved these fundamental inventions
of a new paradigm have been either very young or very new to the field whose par-
adigm they change.... They are the men who, being little committed by prior prac-
tice to the traditional rules of normal science, are particularly likely to see that these
rules no longer define a playable game and to conceive another set that can replace
them^34.Similarly, those attracted to a new paradigm are often “outsiders”: the first
Copernicans were largely not astronomers, the first psychoanalysts not psychiatrists, the first
nutritionists not physicians.
Even within the scientific establishment, the ambiance toward orgonomy is chang-
ing. We can expect that a serious debate over Reich’s revolutionary paradigms in biology and
physics will soon begin. Accompanying this ferment will be considerable controversy over
his medical concepts and findings.
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