Against the Tide | A Critical Review by Scientists of How Physics and Astronomy Get Done

Martn Lopez Corredoira (u. a.)

ISBN 10: 1599429934 / ISBN 13: 9781599429939

Published by Universal Publishers, 2008

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Against the Tide | A Critical Review by Scientists of How Physics and Astronomy Get Done | Martn Lopez Corredoira (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | Kartoniert / Broschiert | Englisch | 2008 | Universal Publishers | EAN 9781599429939 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Against the Tide | A Critical Review by Scientists of How Physics and Astronomy Get Done
• Publisher: Universal Publishers
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1599429934
• ISBN 13: 9781599429939
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 216W x 140H x 17D millimeters 216 millimeters width by 140 millimeters height by 17 millimeters depth
• Weight: 382 grams
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Synopsis

Nobody should have a monopoly of the truth in this universe. The censorship and suppression of challenging ideas against the tide of mainstream research, the blacklisting of scientists, for instance, is neither the best way to do and filter science, nor to promote progress in the human knowledge. The removal of good and novel ideas from the scientific stage is very detrimental to the pursuit of the truth. There are instances in which a mere unqualified belief can occasionally be converted into a generally accepted scientific theory through the screening action of refereed literature and meetings planned by the scientific organizing committees and through the distribution of funds controlled by "club opinions". It leads to unitary paradigms and unitary thinking not necessarily associated to the unique truth. This is the topic of this book: to critically analyze the problems of the official (and sometimes illicit) mechanisms under which current science (physics and astronomy in particular) is being administered and filtered today, along with the onerous consequences these mechanisms have on all of us. Apart from the editors, Juan Miguel Campanario, Brian Martin, Wolfgang Kundt, J. Marvin Herndon, Marian Apostol, Halton C. Arp, Tom Van Flandern, Andrei P. Kirilyuk, Dmitri Rabounski and Henry H. Bauer, all of them professional researchers, reveal a pessimistic view of the miseries of the actual system, while a glimmer of hope remains in the "leitmotiv" claim towards the freedom in doing research and attaining an acceptable level of ethics in science.