Saving Science
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For some time I have known that the refusal of the few remaining
scientists to cooperate together to save science, or rather to retrieve science
from the stranglehold of the instrumentalist careerists inevitably drawn
in to "science" in pursuit of the excessive money and prestige
accruing to "science", would mean that science would remain dead. The
tsunami of money flow has surpassed the moment of truth, when non-scientists,
those not interested in the pursuit of truth, but rather of money and prestige,
have taken over.
Regretting the refusal of scientists to cooperate, I thought that
"clean up", work to clean out the stables, would only begin in 2040
or so.
However, I have changed my mind. I now think that singlehandedly, or
with very little help, for instance from Stephen Crothers and one of my
co-authors Malcolm Davidson, I could retrieve science quite soon, before my
death (I am 84).
There was failure by me and everyone else to realise that it should be
quite easy, using the scientific method, to prove either that Mr. A was a
scientist, or a careerist. An example is the following experiment, which was
proposed more than ten years ago. http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x0820.htm . The
results of this experiment will herald the next advance in science at its core.
A careerist would make no comment on the proposal, or would say that the
experiment was unimportant.
Wakefield has proven skills, and could easily do the experiment, given
the encouragement and funding. Note that a careerist instrumentalist would not even
encourage hum to do the experiment, let alone make
any attempt to get him funded.
There are other scientific experiments which will clearly separate the
sheep from the goats, the careerists from the scientists. At present, all
funding and control of journals is in the hands of careerists, mostly to pop
scientists like Rees, Pepper and Hawking. It is up to scientists, in order to
save science, to come up with such scientific experiments (on the Scientific
Reception System. Also, they should be willing to cooperate with each other.
http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x0611.htm
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The other crucial experiment is to see what comes out
of a long battery in the first ten nanoseconds. This will give us a much better
understanding of how a battery works than the silly idea of ions travelling in
the wrong direction at the wrong speed. Again, Tony Wakefield could do the
experiment or supervise it.
http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x37p.htm
; http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/wak4.pdf
Ivor Catt
20.1.2020