On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Zell, Chris wrote: > Does anyone see anything DRAMATICALLY WRONG with this event? They > describe the discovery as "bloody obvious" and say that they were > "shunned" and labeled as "eccentric". More than that, decades of > "modern medicine" fail to correctly identify the simple cause of a > painful and debilitating condition.
The inventors of the Scanning Tunneling Microscope reported the same thing (see below.) What's MUCH MORE scary is the fact that the large number of these events remain unknown to the scientific community. Ask researchers, and a few will be able to come up with the ridicule of Seimmelweis and sterile hands during surgery, or perhaps the ridicule of Weltner and Plate Tectonics. We're not taught about all the others. For example, Black Holes were invented in 1930 by theorist S. Chandra, but he was ridiculed into silence (with Eddington leading the sneers,) and Chandra was essentially hounded out of his position, having to move to the U. of Chicago. It put theoretical astronomy 30 years backwards from where it could be today (since black hole theory was only "rediscovered" in 1960, thirty years after being crushed.) We all grew up with the "Black hole" idea, they are in science books everywhere, and have entered pop-culture. Some physicists have even rode the path to fame and popularity by explaining the details to the public. But have you ever heard ANY mention that they were discovered 30 years early, and their discoverer was essentially silenced by a crowd of angry hostile British astronomers? And that's just one event. There are dozens of equally significant examples, and vast numbers of less important ones. > If this sort of thing can 'get by' the supposed experts for huge > periods of time, WHAT ELSE could we be missing ESPECIALLY in scientific > fields that Here's a scary thought from W. I. Beveridge, author of The Art of Scientific Investigation: Many discoveries must have been stillborn or smothered at birth. We know only those which survived. I started compiling a list, see below. Another scary thought: there should be numerous versions of this sort of list in science history books, or at least all over the internet. But there aren't any. Rather than being common and well known because they're important, instead these facts are embarassing, so nobody except weirdos like me ever mentions their existence. Ridiculed, vindicated scientific discoveries http://amasci.com/weird/vindac.html There are VERY few books about this topic. Here are a few I've found: http://amasci.com/freenrg/clbooks.html#eight > I conclude that we - our culture of technology - could be dead wrong > about an astounding number of things - given that it takes us decades of > struggle even to recognize "bloody obvious" cures. Exactly! That's why we're here. If the scientific mythology was correct, then our hobby would be hopeless, and there would BE no vast unknown for amateurs to explore, and only professionals with major funding would have any chance of uncovering interesting stuff. I think we have "Emperor's clothes effect" to thank. All the experts become blinded by beliefs and by misguided education, while a little kid is the only one who explores the secret unspoken concept that becomes so obvious in hindsight, after the little kid has pointed it out to everyone. One would think that the "Emperor's" advisers would be the ones most concious of his nakedness. But instead it's the outsiders who aren't infected with the same blindness. (((((((((((((((((( ( ( ( ( (O) ) ) ) ) ))))))))))))))))))) William J. Beaty SCIENCE HOBBYIST website billb at amasci com http://amasci.com EE/programmer/sci-exhibits amateur science, hobby projects, sci fair Seattle, WA 206-789-0775 unusual phenomena, tesla coils, weird sci
