# kaal:claim:3808852-002

**Claim.** Because the instruments of scientific development and research are themselves centralized, the scientific consensus they produce is naturally centralized as well.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** asserted

**Source quote.**

> The centralized nature of instruments of scientific development and research results in naturally centralized scientific consensus.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Decentralization and Feedback Effects* (2021), II. Decentralization of Science, page 4

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization and Feedback Effects (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808852

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**Topics.** decentralization, consensus-and-security

**Keywords.** science-centralization, scientific-consensus, research-infrastructure, path-dependency

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