Does discoveries get discarded depending on the country of origin of the researchers?
Disclaimer: The post doesn't try to discredit the academic field, but rather it tries to bring up clarification to a question I have. If the response to my question is affirmative, it still wouldn't be a discredit to scientific community, as long as steps are made to correct it.
I am a watcher of Dave Farina and I heard him countless times affirming that science isn't dogma and that if a theory is brought (not like the ones from frauds) even by a not specialised person, the idea is examined and if true, validated.
Maybe I have not seen the right video where Farina talked about what I am asking, but if a discovery is made by researchers in a poor country, is that discovery invalidated, because the country is poor, they don't have funds to make such research, their equipment is presumably old or faulty, etc?
This used to be the case in the past, where discoveries were made someone, but the ones called to document the results went away without noting anything, even if the experiment was succesfull, because the one who made the experiment was poor and didn't had enough money to make research (or what formulatione existed back then). From my experience, such discrimination still applies in modern day on professional front, but I don't know if it happens in academia and subsequently, in research process.
Before someone asking for a concrete case of such discrimination happening in research field, it was a case study from history class back in highschool; I think it was in France regarding a sucesfull aviatic experiment. It passed many years since then, so I don't remember the details of that case.
