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.In praise of academics
in general, and in praise of scienticulists Dr Neil McEwan, Professor Michael Pepper FRS, Professor M Pepper
FRS Dr James W Mink, Professor A
Howie FRS Professor Archie Howie FRS and Professor Philip E Secker in particular; Said
an ape as he swung by his tail, To
his children both female and male, 'From
your offspring, my dears, In
a couple of years, May
evolve a professor at Yale. -Bennett Cerf (1898-1971), "Out on a Limerick" (Cerf was a graduate of Columbia University.) From Oliver Heaviside. "Whether good mathematicians,
when they die, go to Cambridge, I do not know." Ivor Catt aug00 Take the Catt Anomaly. . Faced with evidence of a problem, a group of idiots have a choice between ignoring it, which is a short-term option only, or trying to discredit it by foul means. The idea of a third choice, of proper discussion, or fear-of-all-fears, of actually making progress in science by bringing clarity to bear on an important problem, would be admitting ignorance. Hence, every point raised is seen to be such a danger to a fragile subject that it must be guarded against the slightest inspection. An anomaly must be ignored or ridiculed. Progress would be a threat to the authority of those who fear revolutionary progress. So they would prefer to shoot themselves in the foot in the long-term . They can still hope that the short-term cover-up will sweep away a problem for long enough for it to literally die. . Editorial, Electronics World, August 2003, p3. . |
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3june02 http://www.electromagnetism.demon.co.uk/catanoi.htm http://www.electromagnetism.demon.co.uk/wbbanbk1.htm http://www.electromagnetism.demon.co.uk/y7aiee.htm http://www.ivorcatt.com/em_test04.htm Summary I asked an elementary
question in classical electromagnetism. Top experts in Cambridge and in another
university were instructed to reply to the question. They totally
contradicted each other. They then refused to discuss their difference with
each other. I took the problem of
their contradiction http://www.ivorcatt.com/2812.htm http://www.ivorcatt.com/2813.htm to the London Institution of Electrical
Engineers (IEE). Their top expert took the side of one expert. Then seven
weeks later he switched to the other side. Shortly thereafter, he claimed
that he was not an expert. The IEE Chief Executive
refused to give the question to another expert for comment. I took the problem to the
New York Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) with an
identical outcome. All these rogues continue
to draw salary for teaching the faulty theory. Ivor Catt 3june02 |
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Tweaker http://www.ivorcatt.com/28anomt.htm My 1994 book Electromagnetism 1 is at http://www.ivorcatt.com/em.htm Catt et al., Digital Hardware
Design , pub. Macmillan 1979 There once was an old man of Esser |