At 01:35 pm 15-11-04 +1300, you wrote:
>Here is some reading:
>http://www.world-mysteries.com/sci_supr.htm
A very good summation of the deplorable situation in
which science finds itself. I have copied the Intro.
below to give Vortexians the flavour of the long article.
There is quite a bit on Cold Fusion as well which will be
of interest.
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Introduction
Science is in a state of crisis. Where free inquiry, natural
curiosity and open-minded discussion and consideration of
new ideas should reign, a new orthodoxy has emerged. This
'new inquisition', as it has been called by Robert Anton
Wilson[2] consists not of cardinals and popes, but of the
editors and reviewers of scientific journals, of leading
authorities and self-appointed "skeptics", and last but not
least of corporations and governments that have a vested
interest in keeping the status quo, and it is just as
effective in suppressing unorthodox ideas as the original.
The scientists in the editorial boards of journals who
decide which research is fit to be published, and which is
not, the scientists at the patent office who decide what
feats nature allows human technology to perform, and which
ones it does not, and the scientists in governmental
agencies who decide what proposals to fund, and not to fund,
either truly believe that they are in complete knowledge of
all the fundamental laws of nature, or they purposely
suppress certain discoveries that threaten the scientific
prestige of individuals or institutions, or economic
interests. Research that indicates that an accepted theory
is incomplete, severely flawed, or completely mistaken,
will be rejected on the grounds that it "contradicts the
laws of nature", and therefore has to be the result of
sloppiness or fraud. At the heart of this argument is the
incorrect notion that *theory overrides evidence*.
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It is a pity that the only place the wheat can find to
germinate is a field containing a lot of cockle.
I regret to say that Dr.Essen was reduced to the same
plight and had the misjudgment to publish some of his
work in a violently anti-semitic periodical - all the more
unfortunate in view of his Germano-phone name.
I fear that until relativity is uncoupled from the prestige
of the Jewish nation, there will be an insuperable stumbling
block to objectivity on this topic.
Grimer
