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Fake Science.
The Decline of Science.
Dear Sarah Knapton,
re your Telegraph article on 20 October, p5. "Birds' beaks are
longer thanks to our garden feeders."
I make two points.
The narrower point I make to you is that the
information given to you is statistically trivial.
Scientists exaggerate claims in order to ensure further research
funding. The article is full of items straight out of Professor Bruce
Charlton's book
"Not even trying; The Corruption of real science", which is on the
www,
For instance, from your article; ".... .... it is reasonable to
suggest that the longer beaks amongst British great tits may have evolved as a
response to this supplementary feeding." The longer length of British
Tits, "up to 0.3mm", is obviously statistically insignificant. They
suggest that this results from the British " ....
putting out food for garden birds." Such a small
statistically insignificant change could be correlated with many changes
On the second point, I have some very interesting information for the
Telegraph reader, but information which is outside today's science canon,
or dogma. Generally, the media are trapped within the canon, but the first
journalist who steps outside the canon, although taking a risk, might gain very
great rewards.
My friend Neville
Hodgkinson in "The Sunday Times", stepped outside the canon on
AIDS, and suffered greatly as a result. However, in his autobiography the then
editor, Andrew Neil, says that his greatest achievement as editor was to
publish Hodgkinson.
My research shows convincingly that "The Peer Review Mafia",
or "Peer Review Cartel" has taken over science and its funding
committees. Their “Pop Science”, or “Zombie Science”, becomes more and more
absurd while they try to continue to enthuse a
gullible public and political class. Currently they warn of an invasion by
aliens and say we must colonise another planet in the next 30 years – Rees and
Hawking, also Brian Cox and CERN. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2urJ4agYGw
; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VlNt3bwA4s
It would take a lot of work for you to look into this, but the rewards
for you could be very great. The Zombie Science juggernaut is bound to crash
presently, but may stay in control for a decade more or even longer.
My work was peer review blocked for 50 years, but then was peer reviewed
with comprehensive defamation and misrepresentation by the biggest independent
research organisation in the world, the IEEE. http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x6611.pdf ; http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x311a.htm . All ten leaders in
the field who were involved in blocking my work acted unethically, for instance
breaching the Code of Ethics of their organisations. The relationship between
Zombie Science and Real Science is ugly and damaging. Each side has to inflict
maximum damage on the other, as Polanyi
says.
Return to; “My research shows convincingly that "The Peer Review
Mafia", or "Peer Review Cartel" has taken over science and its
funding committees. Their “Pop Science”, or “Zombie Science”, becomes more and
more absurd while they try to continue to interest a gullible public and
political class.”
At some time in the future, one journalist will dare to broach this
subject. It could be you. Obviously the public interest demands that you do so,
if only to suggest that it is possibly true that careerists have captured the
high peaks of science and now block major advance, which would damage their
careers and reputations.
Ivor Catt October 2017
I received no reply.
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