SLIMEBALLS Still Directing Scientific "Truth" -- Velikovsky Affair

"THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR"
Foreward
(by Alfred de Grazia)

In 1950, a book called Worlds in Collision, by Dr. Immanuel
Velikovsky, gave rise to a controversy in scientific and intellectual
circles about scientific theories and the sociology of science.

Dr. Velikovsky's historical and cosmological concepts, bolstered by
his
acknowledged scholarship, constituted a formidable assault on certain
established theories of astronomy, geology and historical biology, and
on the heroes of those sciences.

Newton, himself, and Darwin were being challenged, and indeed
the general orthodoxy of an ordered universe.

The substance of Velikovsky's ideas is briefly presented in the first
chapter of this book.

"What must be called the scientific establishment rose in arms, not
only against th new Velikovsky theories but against the man himself,"
wrote de Grazia.

"Efforts were made to block dissemination of Dr. Velikovsky's ideas,
and even to punish supporters of his investigations.

"Universities, scientific societies, publishing houses, the popular press =
were approached and threatened; social pressures and professional
sanctions=
were invoked to control public opinion.

"There is no doubt that in a totalitarian society, not only would Dr.
Velikovsky's reputation have been at stake, but also his right to
pursue his inquiry, and perhaps his own personal safety.

"As it was, the "establishment" succeeded in building a wall of
unfavorable sentiment around him: to thousands of scholars the name of
Velikovsky bears the taint of fantasy, science-fiction and publicity.

"He could not be suppressed entirely. In the next few years he
published three more books. He carried on a large correspondence. And
he was helped by friends and by a large general public composed of
persons outside of the establishments
of science.

"The probings of spacecraft tended to confirm -- never to disprove --
his arguments.

"Eventually, the venomous aspects of the controversy,
the efforts at suppression, the campaign of vilification
loomed almost as large, in their consequences to science,
as the original issue.

"Social scientists, who had been generally aware of Dr. Velikovsky's
work, now found themselves in the thick of the conflict.

"The involvement of the social and behavioral sciences in the
scientific theories of Velikovsky was higher than had been earlier
appreciated.

"The social sciences are the basis of Velikovsky's work: despite his
proficiency in the natural sciences, it is by the use of the
methodology of social science that Velikovsky launched his challenge
to
accepted cosmological theories.

"No one pretends that this method is adequate. New forms of
interdisciplinary research are needed to wed, for example, the study
of
myth with the study of meteorities.

"Nor does one have to agree that Velikovsky is the greatest technician
of mythology, even while granting his great conceptual and
synthesizing
powers.

"Whatever the scientific substance, the controversy inself could not
be
avoided or dismissed by behavioral science.

"The problem of science is one of the agitating problems of the 20th cent=
ury. The issues are clear:

WHO DETERMINES SCIENTIFIC TRUTH? (My caps, not his!)

WHO ARE ITS HIGH PRIESTS, AND WHAT IS THEIR
WARRANT?

HOW DO THEY ESTABLISH THEIR CANONS?

WHAT EFFECTS DO THEY HAVE ON THE FREEDOM
OF INQUIRY, AND ON PUBLIC INTEREST?

"In the end, some judgment M-U-S-T must be passed upon the behavior of
the scientific world and, if adverse, some remedies must be proposed .
.. .

"It is our hope that the publication of these papers in the present
volume (a revised and enlarged version) will make it less easy for
Velikovsky's new work to be suppressed, or lightly dismissed.

"We hope, too, that they will help scientists and interested laymen
everywhere to rehearse the problems and to REFORM THE ERRORS of the
vast enterprise of science."

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But a half-century late, things sure haven't changed. The disgraceful
Scientific Community is still belittling honest investigators,
berating
legitimate scientific evidence and badmouthing and blackballing
seekers
of The Truth.)

General Accounting Office (GAO), WHERE ARE YOU?

Isn't it time YOU lived up to your responsibility to protect
the American taxpayers' dollar and put your giant foot down on
the scoundrels who -- via their deceit, deception, collusion and
conspiracy, THEIR TOTAL DISHONESTY -- are keeping
the fresh air of truth from replacing the $tink of Science?

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http://www.edconrad.com

Man as Old as Coal
AND
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Ed Conrad

http://www.edconrad.com

Man as Old as Coal

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