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|content=Now you know: Universal Peer Review is a very recent means of protecting institutions and *incumbents* from upstarts and science.
 
This isn’t science. This is the DISC.
 
We now return you to your previous simple beliefs about Science and its practice:
 
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|content=This story will continue to be told...only generally not on game days. Yet every once in a while the two narratives, instutional and personal, collide ever so briefly. That is when the DISC slips.
 
It may not have been paradise, but they did indeed put up a parking lot...
 
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|content=I’m asked what the DISC is concretely. An old example of The Distributed Idea Suppression Complex in 4 photos:
 
I) The Hispanic towns of Bishop, Palo Verde & la Loma, clockwise from Left. 1948.
 
II) Now.
 
III) Moving Day (Aurora Vargas).
 
IV) Walter O’Malley.
 
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|content=The DISC does *not* usually try to ensure that you can’t find the story. It may even bring up the story tangentially in something like a “To be sure...” paragraph or in occasional features. It merely ensures that the reality now paved over never becomes operational.
 
Go Dodgers.
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|content=This resulted in twin narratives:
 
A) The instutional “Go Dodger Blue!” narrative about a team and a stadium.
 
B) The “Chavez Ravine” narrative about the awesome power of the state to destroy any illusion of property rights and abuse of extraordinary powers against the powerless.
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|content=Hello DISC.
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