Damned Heretics
Condemned by the established, but very often right
Qualified outsiders and maverick insiders are very often right about the need to replace received wisdom in science and society. This blog exists to back the best of them in their uphill assault on the massive entrenched edifice of resistance to and prejudice against reviewing let alone revising ruling ideas. In support of such qualified dissenters and courageous heretics we search for scientific paradigms and other established beliefs which may be maintained only by the power and politics of the status quo, comparing them with academic research and the published experimental and investigative record.
We especially defend and support the funding of honest, accomplished, independent minded and often heroic scientists and other original thinkers (Peter Duesberg, Serge Lang, Harvey Bialy, Kary Mullis, Henry Bauer, Jim Watson, Peter Medawar, Erwin Chargaff, Richard Feynman, Linus Pauling, James Hansen, Fred Singer, Richard Lindzen, Rainer Plaga, Otto Rossler, Michio Kaku, David Rasnick, Rebecca Culshaw, Ernst Krebs, Mark Leggett, Adrian Kent) and their right to free speech and publication against the censorship, mudslinging, false arguments, ad hominem propaganda, overwhelming group prejudice and internal science politics of the paradigm wars of cancer, AIDS, evolution, global warming, cosmology, particle physics, macroeconomics, health and medicine, diet and nutrition.
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Many people would die rather than think – in fact, they do so. – Bertrand Russell.
Skepticism is dangerous. That’s exactly its function, in my view. It is the business of skepticism to be dangerous. And that’s why there is a great reluctance to teach it in schools. That’s why you don’t find a general fluency in skepticism in the media. On the other hand, how will we negotiate a very perilous future if we don’t have the elementary intellectual tools to ask searching questions of those nominally in charge, especially in a democracy? – Carl Sagan (The Burden of Skepticism, keynote address to CSICOP Annual Conference, Pasadena, April 3/4, 1982).
It is really important to underscore that everything we’re talking about tonight could be utter nonsense. – Brian Greene (NYU panel on Hidden Dimensions June 5 2010, World Science Festival)
One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways. – Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 9
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(Associated with New AIDS Review, New Science Review, New Technology Review, Talk In New York and Science Guardian)
Qualified outsiders and maverick insiders are very often right about the need to replace received wisdom in science and society. This blog exists to back the best of them in their uphill assault on the massive entrenched edifice of resistance to and prejudice against reviewing let alone revising ruling ideas. In support of such qualified dissenters and courageous heretics we search for scientific paradigms and other established beliefs which may be maintained only by the power and politics of the status quo, comparing them with academic research and the published experimental and investigative record.
We especially defend and support the funding of honest, accomplished, independent minded and often heroic scientists and other original thinkers (Peter Duesberg, Serge Lang, Harvey Bialy, Kary Mullis, Henry Bauer, Jim Watson, Peter Medawar, Erwin Chargaff, Richard Feynman, Linus Pauling, James Hansen, Fred Singer, Richard Lindzen, Rainer Plaga, Otto Rossler, Michio Kaku, David Rasnick, Rebecca Culshaw, Ernst Krebs, Mark Leggett, Adrian Kent) and their right to free speech and publication against the censorship, mudslinging, false arguments, ad hominem propaganda, overwhelming group prejudice and internal science politics of the paradigm wars of cancer, AIDS, evolution, global warming, cosmology, particle physics, macroeconomics, health and medicine, diet and nutrition.
More explanation in second blue section below
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Many people would die rather than think – in fact, they do so. – Bertrand Russell.
Skepticism is dangerous. That’s exactly its function, in my view. It is the business of skepticism to be dangerous. And that’s why there is a great reluctance to teach it in schools. That’s why you don’t find a general fluency in skepticism in the media. On the other hand, how will we negotiate a very perilous future if we don’t have the elementary intellectual tools to ask searching questions of those nominally in charge, especially in a democracy? – Carl Sagan (The Burden of Skepticism, keynote address to CSICOP Annual Conference, Pasadena, April 3/4, 1982).
It is really important to underscore that everything we’re talking about tonight could be utter nonsense. – Brian Greene (NYU panel on Hidden Dimensions June 5 2010, World Science Festival)
One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways. – Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 9
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Expanded GUIDE TO SITE PURPOSE AND LAYOUT is in the lower blue section at the bottom of the home page.
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Many people would die rather than think – in fact, they do so. – Bertrand Russell.
Skepticism is dangerous. That’s exactly its function, in my view. It is the business of skepticism to be dangerous. And that’s why there is a great reluctance to teach it in schools. That’s why you don’t find a general fluency in skepticism in the media. On the other hand, how will we negotiate a very perilous future if we don’t have the elementary intellectual tools to ask searching questions of those nominally in charge, especially in a democracy? – Carl Sagan (The Burden of Skepticism, keynote address to CSICOP Annual Conference, Pasadena, April 3/4, 1982).
It is really important to underscore that everything we’re talking about tonight could be utter nonsense. – Brian Greene (NYU panel on Hidden Dimensions June 5 2010, World Science Festival)
One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways. – Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 9
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(Associated with New AIDS Review, New Science Review, New Technology Review, Talk In New York and Science Guardian)
GUIDE TO BLOG PURPOSE AND LAYOUT
The blog is designed to be a guide to better science and social perspective in public policy through a continuing series of posts highlighting error and confusion in certain scientific fields where paradigms are sustained beyond their shelf life and supported only by politics and propaganda, and it includes a set of links to relevant other sites, which blogroll is lower down in the sidebar on the right.
Valuing documentation above all, we measure truth by the professional and scholarly literature in peer reviewed journals (adjusted for incompetence and bias), well researched books, and the investigative reporting and skeptical reviews of well informed original thinkers among academics, philosophers, researchers, scholars, authors, and journalists (James P. Hogan, Gordon Moran, John Lauritsen, Neville Hodgkinson, Jad Adams, Celia Farber, Liam Scheff, Robert Houston, Claus Jensen, Anthony Liversidge, James Blodgett, Jim Tankersley, John Tierney, Bob Herbert, Dennis Overbye, Marcus Cohen, Gary Null, Walter Wagner, Luis Sancho, Toby Ord, Eric Johnson, Gary Taubes, Michael Fumento) well recognized as exemplary by the discerning but all too often scorned, shortchanged or damned by publicly irresponsible scientists and other authorities living off the status quo, and their zealous but underinformed followers.
In this way we hope to combat the overwhelming influence of unthinking conformists to the status quo and the running dog lackeys of those in power and high position who mislead us in science and society, consciously or not, namely compliant media editors, lickspittle science reporters, ignorant publishers, fellow traveling pharma activists and other invested parties, and their misguided congregation of patients, doctors, politicians, officials, charity workers, foundation staff, philanthropists, celebrities, bloggers and other well intentioned members of the confused but trusting general public who may naively assume that leading scientists and other gurus are not subject like the rest of us to the laws of human nature, by which personal rewards and group goals can trump professional conscience and the public interest.
The overriding aim of this blog and its pages is to combat group think and the political and social propaganda of government agencies and other large social systems, public and corporate, which induce conformist group think and social compliance by comparing established beliefs and claims in science and elsewhere with the scholarly professional and research literature, and especially to defend the values of science and good scientists in the paradigm wars of HIV/AIDS, cancer, evolution, global warming, nutrition, particle physics, economics, religious belief and any other disputes over new and different ideas against conformity, prejudice, subjectivity and self-interest, standing up for free speech and publication against the tendency of the authorities to repress unwanted ideas and mining corrective truths buried in the journals and commonly overlooked by the media.
We try to review novel claims without the usual prejudice against modern Galileos, courageous whistleblowers, distinguished mavericks, past or future Nobelists, and any other publicly damned and insulted but in fact highly respectable heretics, that is, informed and independent minds (such as the noted scientists Peter Duesberg, James Watson and Kary Mullis) who may question scripture.
Thus the blog aims at balanced and objective commentary on the rival claims of paradigm promoters and defenders of the status quo and informed dissidents, judging truth objectively with reason and evidence and by reading specialist journals and books generally overlooked by overworked media reporters and commentators, though not without applying a filter of common sense and carefully deconstructing the peer-reviewed scientific and medical record to reveal the influence of power politics, self interest, data management, misinterpretation, religious fervor and many other human follies (see below).
We also review science and other events in New York City (talks, panels, conferences) and from time to time note exceptional proven personal technology.
RELEVANT QUOTATIONS:
This is my battle with John Maddox [editor of Nature] and with people who are actually fabricating the data [Ascher et al in Nature, March 11, 1993]. They claim to have such a group that had not used any drugs. When I analyzed the data, it turned out that there was not a single person in their paper that was drug-free. I submitted a critique to Maddox, but his response was, I could no longer respond. I was censored. – Peter Duesberg (left), interview with Bob Guccione, Spin magazine, September, 1993.
One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid. – James Watson (right)
Malice, sir, is the spirit of criticism, and criticism marks the origin of progress and enlightenment. – Thomas Mann
There are only two things, science and opinion; the former yields knowledge, the latter ignorance. – Hippocrates, Law (5th-6th Century BC)
Experimental evidence is strongly in favor of my argument that the chemical purity of the air is of no importance. – L. Erskine Hill, Lecturer on Physiology at London Hospital, in “Impure Air Not Unhealthful If Stirred and Cooked”, New York Times, Sept 22, 1912.
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MASTER LIST OF SOURCES OF HUMAN BIAS IN SCIENTIFIC AND INTELLECTUAL DEBATE
Since scientific reporting bias and other conscious or inadvertent prejudice in favor of ideas that reward selfish and group interests rather the public generally arises from human nature, we here provide a Master List of Sources of Human Bias ie sources of the personal and very human frailties that distort science and society in the 21st Century and prevent proper attention to the published literature of science and other fields, and its clear evidence, for example, that a reigning paradigm such as HIV=AIDS is a grand and egregious error:
Activism, arrogance, authority wielding, avarice,
Backscratching, bootlicking, browbeating, bullying, bureaucratic bumbling and self preservation,
Careerism, closemindedness, censoring, censoriousness, clubbiness, club membership, coercion, collegiality, competitiveness, confidence tricks, conformity, confirmation bias, convention, cooking the books, competing for credit, corruption of power, cowardice, credulity, crowd psychology, currying favor, cv expansion,
Deceit, discovery bias, defensiveness, delusions of grandeur, gratitude, discretion, dissembling, dogmatism, dreams of glory,
Embarrassment, empire building, envy, experimental bias,
False hope, fanciful theorizing, family loyalty, fashion, fear and loathing, fear mongering, flag waving, flocking, fondness for the status quo, friendship,
Group loyalty, grant seeking,
Herd instinct, homophobia, hubris, human error, hypocrisy,
Iatrogenic ignorance, ideology, illogic, instigating panic, institutional affiliation, intimidation, irrationality, insanity,
Job retention,
Kowtowing to seniority,
Lack of controls, laziness, lickspittle press instincts, loyalty to superiors, lying, lynch mob mentality,
Maintaining parents, wives, mistresses and offspring, masochism, media stenography, mental inertia, mentor allegiance, misdirection, misunderstanding, naivete, narcissism, Nobel hunting,
Obedience, obeisance, officiousness, opportunism, overclaiming,
Panic, publication bias, paradigm protection, patron pandering, peer pressure, perks, preconceptions, privileges and prizes, piety, politicking, political pressures, popularity, power seeking, pseudoscience, prejudice, preserving face, prevarication, pride, protectionism, Ptolemaic rationalizing, public relations, PubMed illiteracy, pusillanimity,
Racism, rage, rationalization, religion, religious instinct, respectability, reputation enhancing, resistance to change, rivalry, ruthless ambition,
Sadism, selective reporting, scheming for advancement, self-deception, self-interest, self-justification, self-preservation, self-promotion, scientific illiteracy, shame, sloth, slow wit, smug orthodoxy, social ambition, social belonging, status seeking, sheer stupidity,
Terrorizing, thievery, timidity, toadying, trickery, tribalism, ‘truthiness’,
Unthinking acquiescence, unchecked error copying, uninformed certainty, unconscious misperception,
Vanity, venality, veneration, virus hunting,
Witch hunting, wishful thinking, worship of authority,
Youthful naivete, and
Zeal in the service of the establishment and status quo.
Special note: Yes we recognize that if the purpose of the blog is to change human nature we are fated to have very little effect. On the other hand we believe that enlightening others by substituting credible research for various specious memes rampant in the too credulous minds of the good hearted may help steer human resources in the right direction, or at the very least result (following the example of many that we criticize) in a large amount of ready money deposited in our outstretched hand or in our bank account by those who wish to maintain the status quo (please phone or email for the account number).
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SG Guidelines for Tips and Comments:
Friends, greetings. Welcome to all, without bias,
We hope you will, with an open mind, try us.
But with all due respect, we have to give warning,
This space is not for establishment fawning.
Nor conspiracy theory the truth that we teach,
And paranoids, please, use Hyde Park to preach.
It is scientific review that we welcome here,
From any damned heretic who can think without fear.
The question we raise is, is top science reliable,
When billions pour in, or is it all too buyable?
We invite all newcomers intent on defending
Good science with a standard of truth unbending.
Let's set aside politics, power games, and prizes,
And expose backscratching in all its disguises,
Let’s reject venality, vanity, and PC censors,
And free pure science from social consensus.
Together we'll review conventional beliefs
Without regard as to who’ll come to grief,
In the light of best studies in medicine and science,
On these references we’ll place our reliance.
Tho' we know very well they can also be twisted,
By the factors above that we sorrowfully listed,
For all human endeavor is subject to bias,
But if you seek objectivity we hope you will try us.
In other words, this blog extends the following open invitation to all skeptical realists interested in correcting scientific and social error, including ours:
Please join us in defending science and sense against corrupting human frailties and motivations, as listed above. If you wish to add your own post, please submit (we do not edit meaning or content except for sense and typos).
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We also review science and other events in New York City (talks, panels, conferences) and from time to time note exceptional proven personal technology.
This is my battle with John Maddox [editor of Nature] and with people who are actually fabricating the data [Ascher et al in Nature, March 11, 1993]. They claim to have such a group that had not used any drugs. When I analyzed the data, it turned out that there was not a single person in their paper that was drug-free. I submitted a critique to Maddox, but his response was, I could no longer respond. I was censored. – Peter Duesberg (left), interview with Bob Guccione, Spin magazine, September, 1993.One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid. – James Watson (right)
Malice, sir, is the spirit of criticism, and criticism marks the origin of progress and enlightenment. – Thomas Mann
There are only two things, science and opinion; the former yields knowledge, the latter ignorance. – Hippocrates, Law (5th-6th Century BC)
Experimental evidence is strongly in favor of my argument that the chemical purity of the air is of no importance. – L. Erskine Hill, Lecturer on Physiology at London Hospital, in “Impure Air Not Unhealthful If Stirred and Cooked”, New York Times, Sept 22, 1912.
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MASTER LIST OF SOURCES OF HUMAN BIAS IN SCIENTIFIC AND INTELLECTUAL DEBATESince scientific reporting bias and other conscious or inadvertent prejudice in favor of ideas that reward selfish and group interests rather the public generally arises from human nature, we here provide a Master List of Sources of Human Bias ie sources of the personal and very human frailties that distort science and society in the 21st Century and prevent proper attention to the published literature of science and other fields, and its clear evidence, for example, that a reigning paradigm such as HIV=AIDS is a grand and egregious error:
Activism, arrogance, authority wielding, avarice, Backscratching, bootlicking, browbeating, bullying, bureaucratic bumbling and self preservation, Careerism, closemindedness, censoring, censoriousness, clubbiness, club membership, coercion, collegiality, competitiveness, confidence tricks, conformity, confirmation bias, convention, cooking the books, competing for credit, corruption of power, cowardice, credulity, crowd psychology, currying favor, cv expansion, Deceit, discovery bias, defensiveness, delusions of grandeur, gratitude, discretion, dissembling, dogmatism, dreams of glory, Embarrassment, empire building, envy, experimental bias, False hope, fanciful theorizing, family loyalty, fashion, fear and loathing, fear mongering, flag waving, flocking, fondness for the status quo, friendship, Group loyalty, grant seeking,
Herd instinct, homophobia, hubris, human error, hypocrisy,
Iatrogenic ignorance, ideology, illogic, instigating panic, institutional affiliation, intimidation, irrationality, insanity,
Job retention,
Kowtowing to seniority,
Lack of controls, laziness, lickspittle press instincts, loyalty to superiors, lying, lynch mob mentality,
Maintaining parents, wives, mistresses and offspring, masochism, media stenography, mental inertia, mentor allegiance, misdirection, misunderstanding, naivete, narcissism, Nobel hunting,
Obedience, obeisance, officiousness, opportunism, overclaiming,
Panic, publication bias, paradigm protection, patron pandering, peer pressure, perks, preconceptions, privileges and prizes, piety, politicking, political pressures, popularity, power seeking, pseudoscience, prejudice, preserving face, prevarication, pride, protectionism, Ptolemaic rationalizing, public relations, PubMed illiteracy, pusillanimity,
Racism, rage, rationalization, religion, religious instinct, respectability, reputation enhancing, resistance to change, rivalry, ruthless ambition,
Sadism, selective reporting, scheming for advancement, self-deception, self-interest, self-justification, self-preservation, self-promotion, scientific illiteracy, shame, sloth, slow wit, smug orthodoxy, social ambition, social belonging, status seeking, sheer stupidity,
Terrorizing, thievery, timidity, toadying, trickery, tribalism, ‘truthiness’,
Unthinking acquiescence, unchecked error copying, uninformed certainty, unconscious misperception,
Vanity, venality, veneration, virus hunting,
Witch hunting, wishful thinking, worship of authority,
Youthful naivete, and
Zeal in the service of the establishment and status quo.
Special note: Yes we recognize that if the purpose of the blog is to change human nature we are fated to have very little effect. On the other hand we believe that enlightening others by substituting credible research for various specious memes rampant in the too credulous minds of the good hearted may help steer human resources in the right direction, or at the very least result (following the example of many that we criticize) in a large amount of ready money deposited in our outstretched hand or in our bank account by those who wish to maintain the status quo (please phone or email for the account number).
All pages are intended to be best displayed in VERY LARGE FONT in Safari or Firefox (PC or Mac), or Google Chrome (PC), and may be wrongly displayed by Internet Explorer which may not distinguish between boldface and normal text.
How to print out posts and comment threads:
Actual Posts are best printed out when they are displayed individually, by clicking the headline of the post, which is a link, because the multi-post front page printout will include the blogroll and list of all posts down the side, which most people do not wish to print out.
What are titled Pages unfortunately will not display or print out without the right hand index appearing, for some reason which we still have to fathom. All suggestions welcome (calling all Wordpress experts).
To display a post individually click its title, which will display it without the sidebar and allow it to be printed out more conveniently. The printout will not include the remarks visible if any photo is covered by the cursor (refresh as necessary).
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Thank you to our supporters and patrons, since we prefer to avoid ads (which if Google is used will tend to be ads for precisely what we disapprove of) and blog host resources alone are insufficient to fight the propaganda and disinformation of megabillion dollar medico-scientific empires based on scientific fiction.
Please Comment
We are grateful for any appreciation in email or Comments.
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. - Voltaire.
SG Guidelines for Tips and Comments:
Friends, greetings. Welcome to all, without bias,
We hope you will, with an open mind, try us.
But with all due respect, we have to give warning,
This space is not for establishment fawning.
Nor conspiracy theory the truth that we teach,
And paranoids, please, use Hyde Park to preach.
It is scientific review that we welcome here,
From any damned heretic who can think without fear.
The question we raise is, is top science reliable,
When billions pour in, or is it all too buyable?
We invite all newcomers intent on defending
Good science with a standard of truth unbending.
Let's set aside politics, power games, and prizes,
And expose backscratching in all its disguises,
Let’s reject venality, vanity, and PC censors,
And free pure science from social consensus.
Together we'll review conventional beliefs
Without regard as to who’ll come to grief,
In the light of best studies in medicine and science,
On these references we’ll place our reliance.
Tho' we know very well they can also be twisted,
By the factors above that we sorrowfully listed,
For all human endeavor is subject to bias,
But if you seek objectivity we hope you will try us.
In other words, this blog extends the following open invitation to all skeptical realists interested in correcting scientific and social error, including ours:
Please join us in defending science and sense against corrupting human frailties and motivations, as listed above. If you wish to add your own post, please submit (we do not edit meaning or content except for sense and typos).
All material copyright Science Guardian and New AIDS Review 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 (Anthony Liversidge, Founder and Managing Editor, writing under the nom de plume Truthseeker). Copyright shared with anyone else posting.
How To Contact Science Guardian
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