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In questions of science the authority of a
thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single
individual. I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God
who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us
to forgo their use.
--- Galileo Galilei
"There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry.
There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and
must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek
for any evidence, to correct any errors."
J.
Robert Oppenheimer, quoted in Life, October 10, 1949
Suppression, Censorship and Dogmatism in Science
"Textbooks present science as a noble search for
truth, in which progress depends on questioning established ideas.
But for many scientists, this is a cruel myth. They know from bitter
experience that disagreeing with the dominant view is dangerous -
especially when that view is backed by powerful interest groups.
Call it suppression of intellectual dissent. The usual pattern is
that someone does research or speaks out in a way that threatens a
powerful interest group, typically a government, industry or
professional body. As a result, representatives of that group attack
the critic's ideas or the critic personally-by censoring writing,
blocking publications, denying appointments or promotions,
withdrawing research grants, taking legal actions, harassing,
blacklisting, spreading rumors."
The Suppression of Inconvenient Facts in Physics:
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"What is p?"
A mathematician: "p is the ratio of the circumference of a
circle to its diameter."
A computer programmer: "p is 3.141592653589 in double
precision."
A physicist: "p is 3.14159 plus or minus 0.000005."
An engineer: "p is about 22/7."
A nutritionist: "Pie is a healthy and delicious dessert!"
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About five years ago - I decided I would not
play ball in the material world anymore and then began to fight the
system. For the past three years I have been writing about a book every
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