-Caveat Lector- WHAT'S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 11 Jun 99 Washington, DC 1. SUPPRESSION OF "NEW SCIENCE": BUDDY CAN YOU PARADIGM? Those attending last weeks Annual Meeting of the Society for Scientific Exploration in Albuquerque (WN 4 Jun 99) take pride in "thinking outside the box." Talks on such uh, diverse topics as divine intervention, cold fusion, biological transmutation, precognitive dreams, psychosurgery, after-death communication, alien breeding experiments, clairvoyance, electronic signaling from the dead and prayer healing, were all accepted as serious science. There is no internal criticism in a community that believes it is under siege. Convinced that powerful vested interests, including the scientific establishment, are conspiring to hold back a scientific revolution, speakers complained that "new" science is denied funding, rejected by journal editors and even subjected to ridicule, just because it doesn't fit some outdated paradigm. Alas, to wear the mantle of Galileo it is not enough that you be persecuted by an unkind establishment, you must also be right. 2. PERSEUS: JEREMY STONE OFFERS AN APOLOGY TO PHIL MORRISON. In his memoirs, Stone, the President of the Federation of American Scientists, linked Morrison, one of the founders of FAS, with a Soviet spy code-named Perseus (WN 14 May 99). Stone based his identification on two Russian articles by a KGB officer. Oddly, however, the description of Perseus in the articles did not even remotely fit Morrison. Perseus, for example, was said to have served in the Spanish Civil War. But Morrison was a graduate student at Berkeley at the time and hardly infantry material--he suffered polio as a child and walks with the aid of a cane. Stone had previously "accepted" Morrison's denial that he was Perseus (WN 14 May 99), but stopped far short of an apology. In a letter to Morrison, Stone now stiffly apologizes "for the unfavorable publicity, which raised unfortunate questions of your innocence." 3. SPY HYSTERIA: SIR RUDOLPH AND LADY PEIERLS ACCUSED OF SPYING. Unsubstantiated accusations of spying at Los Alamos are nothing new. In 1994 Pavel Sudoplatov, an admitted Stalin era assassin, resumed his former trade, asserted without documentation in his memoirs that Bohr, Fermi, Gamow, Oppenheimer and Szilard had all passed secrets to Soviet spies. None were around to answer the allegations. Now, the British magazine, The Spectator, dated May 29, accuses renowned physicist Rudolph Peierls of being a spy code-named Vogel and identifies his wife Eugenia as an agent code-named Tina, also a nuclear scientist. Peierls, who was knighted in 1968, died in 1995 at the age of 88. It was left to one of their daughters to point out that her parents did not fit the profile of Vogel and Tina. Her mother was a housewife at Los Alamos, not a nuclear physicist, and had no access to the lab. 4. THAAD: ARMY MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEM FINALLY SCORES A HIT. On its seventh test, the hit-to-kill missile finally hit. THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY (Note: Opinions are the author's and are not necessarily shared by the APS, but they should be.) DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
