Pronounced KOO-ner (/ˈku .nɚ/, from
Thomas Kuhn, /ku n/)
Noun
1. A
person who pretends to practice science while actually practicing Kuhnian paradigm-protection theology and dogma.
2. A pseudoscientist who masquerades as a real scientist by defending circular definitions (
e.g.
SI 1983 c-by-
fiat), deleting or filtering raw
data, refusing independent verification, and treating sacred postulates (Einstein 1905, imaginary numbers as ontology, true
void, etc.) as unfalsifiable despite logical contradictions at the foundational axiom level.
3. Someone who prioritizes consensus validation, career protection, and "the paradigm" over Popperian falsification criterion 2 and the scientific method.
Adjective
1. Displaying the above traits; dogmatic, anti-falsificationist, consensus-addicted, and allergic to working equations backwards to ontology.
"Those IceCube L1 filters that delete top-down ultra-high-energy events for
15 years while asking for $350M more? Peak kooner behavior."
"Calling the 1983 meter redefinition 'proof' that c is invariant instead of a tautology is
pure kooner
logic."
"String theorists still clinging to 10^500 vacua after the tiling test and the 1905/1924 vacuum incompatibility? Absolute kooners."
"He's not a scientist, he's a professional kooner — will never release raw data and will cite Kuhn the moment you apply
Popper criterion 2."