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Within my discipline (earth sciences), there is a broad shift toward greater interdisciplinary science that is effectively expanding the umbrella of what subdisciplines fall under the moniker of earth science (or effectively creating new subdisciplines). At the same time, there is a very vocal minority (usually within a subdiscipline that use to be kind of the core of a traditional geology curriculum) constantly asserting that practitioners of these specialties are not "real geologists/earth scientists/etc", which to me usually feels pretty much like an invocation of the no true Scotsman fallacy. I'm curious how common this sentiment is in other disciplines? I.e., is it just routine that folks doing "traditional" styles of a discipline are complaining about changes to their field? Or are my earth sciences colleagues just especially cranky?
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