Efforts to subject one’s own pet hypotheses to severe tests, to attempt to falsify them, are always warranted. The likelihood that one will impose unrealistically high standards is quite low. The same cannot be said for the standards that scientists set for the work of their opponents. . .. As unseemly as factionalism in science may be, it does serve a positive function. It enlists baser human ...

This article investigates the incumbent’s curse in candidacy process Indonesia by using Bahrain Kasuba’s failure running for re-election South Halmahera 2020 as its case study. study diverges from traditional scholarship on incumbent curse, which focuses election stage. Instead, we focus Candidacy processes and elections are two different political events. Both have differences three things: th...

Chairman Mao first initiated the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in 1966 in order to expel capitalist influences within the Party and solidify his position as the supreme leader of China. In his " 16 Points, " Mao called on the masses and youth of China to rise up and " strike at the handful of ultra-reactionary bourgeois Rightists and counter-revolutionary revisionists, and expose and cr...

O ne generalization can safely be made about the future of geography in the twenty-first century: We cannot now predict what will be in fashion one hundred or even fifteen years from now (if the discipline still exists). Like all complex, out-of-equilibrium, spatiotemporal systems, it is fruitless to predict or legislate geography’s trajectory of knowledge production. Geographers, like all agen...