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Science > Physics |
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"Quintal" |
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04 Jun 2006 10:50:01 AM |
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Suppression, Censorship and Dogmatism in Science |
alt.conspiracy,sci.misc,sci.med,sci.physics
http://www.suppressedscience.net/
Suppression, Censorship and Dogmatism in Science
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no
matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and
your own common sense."
Buddha (563BC-483BC)
"There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place
for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask
any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to
correct any errors."
J. Robert Oppenheimer, quoted in Life, October 10, 1949.
"The more important fundamental laws and facts of physical science
have all been discovered, and these are now so firmly established that
the possibility of their ever being supplanted in consequence of new
discoveries is exceedingly remote.... Our future discoveries must be
looked for in the sixth place of decimals."
Albert Abraham Michelson, speaking at the University of Chicago, 1894
"the great era of scientific discovery is over.... Further research
may yield no more great revelations of revolutions, but only
incremental, diminishing returns."
Science journalist John Horgan, in The End of Science (1997)
"It is ironical that, in the very field in which Science has claimed
superiority to Theology, for example - in the abandoning of dogma and
the granting of absolute freedom to criticism - the positions are now
reversed. Science will not tolerate criticism of special relativity,
while Theology talks freely about the death of God, religionless
Christianity, and so on."
Herbert Dingle, Science at the Crossroads, 1972
"What we see within the orthodoxy of AIDS is something more akin to an
act of faith, a theology in an age when intolerant fundamentalism is
rampant, where to question is to be heretical, and where to be
heretical is be banished. "
Michael Tracey, AIDS and the making of the public mind
"All scientific knowledge is provisional. Everything that science
"knows," even the most mundane facts and long-established theories, is
subject to reexamination as new information comes in."
Scientific American editorial, December 2002
Historically, there were few scientific breakthroughs that were not
violently opposed, condemned and strongly resisted. Every scientist
knows this, Thomas Kuhn has written a book about it that is considered
a classic, and yet the pattern keeps repeating itself. Many mainstream
scientists these days believe that science has essentially reached
'the end of the road', that everything that can be understood has been
understood, and that therefore claims to genuinely revolutionary
discoveries must necessarily be erroneous or fraudulent.
Establishment science has thus gotten into the habit of ignoring,
burying or suppressing what has now become astonishing amounts of
anomalous evidence. Some of this evidence challenges the very
foundations of the accepted scientific worldview, and none of it is
taught in universities or covered by textbooks. Mention any of it to a
mainstream scientist, and odds are you will be dismissed as a crank,
or worse, a crackpot. The conclusion is sobering: some of what passes
for "scientific fact" these days is little more than a social
construct. What is true and what is not is determined by the
scientific prestige of the claimant, the predilections of journal
editors and referees, and by economic interests. A scientist who
challenges the status quo becomes a persona non grata - banned from
publication in journals and speaking on conferences, defunded,
marginalized. The victims of this phenomenon include world-class
scientists such as Jacques Benveniste, Peter Duesberg, Halton Arp,
Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischman.
This site is intended to serve a threefold purpose- to educate the
public on the widespread phenomenon of suppression, censorship and
unscientific dogmatism in modern science, to expose the methods and
tactics of those behind it, especially the organized "skeptics", and
to promote a healthy skepticism towards the alleged certainties
provided by modern science.
Suppressed Science News
http://www.suppressedscience.net/news.html
The Suppression of Inconvenient Facts in Physics
http://www.suppressedscience.net/physics.html
Anomalies and Suppression in Archeology and Paleoanthropology
http://www.suppressedscience.net/archeology.html
Politics and Suppression in the "War on Cancer"
http://www.suppressedscience.net/cancer.html
The Suppression of Dissent in AIDS Science
http://www.suppressedscience.net/aids.html
Some Notes on Skepticism
http://www.suppressedscience.net/skepticism.html
Seven Warning Signs of Bogus Skepticism
http://www.suppressedscience.net/seven%20warning%20signs.html
Crop Pictograms and Skepticism
http://www.suppressedscience.net/crops.html
NASA vs. Artificial Structures on the Surface of Mars
http://www.suppressedscience.net/mars.html
The Inertia of Scientific Thought (Thomas Gold)
http://www.suppressedscience.net/inertiaofscientificthought.html
How Scientific Censorship Works
(David Crowe on Censorship and Suppression in Medicine)
http://www.suppressedscience.net/censorship-medicine.html
Links to related sites and articles
http://www.suppressedscience.net/links.html
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| User: "Roger Coppock" |
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| Title: Re: Suppression, Censorship and Dogmatism in Science |
04 Jun 2006 10:13:52 PM |
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Quintal wrote:
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no
matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and
your own common sense."
Buddha (563BC-483BC)
One quote, totally out of context, and probably from a
bad 18th century translation, but this is about as much
Buddha as most westerners are exposed to.
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| User: "Mr Clarke" |
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| Title: Re: Suppression, Censorship and Dogmatism in Science |
05 Jun 2006 04:42:01 PM |
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"Roger Coppock" <rcoppock@adnc.com> wrote in message
news:1149477232.194170.266570@c74g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
Quintal wrote:
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no
matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and
your own common sense."
Buddha (563BC-483BC)
One quote, totally out of context, and probably from a
bad 18th century translation, but this is about as much
Buddha as most westerners are exposed to.
Ah`, you must be well aware that we are not alone then?
I prefer to keep my own scientific interests "hobbies", it`s
much safer (and I`m happy with that).
What people never had they will never miss will they?
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Ashley Clarke
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