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

López Corredoira, Martín and Castro Perelman, Carlos and Campanario, Juan Miguel and Martin, Brian and Kundt, Wolfgang and Herndon, J. Marvin and Apostol, Marian and Arp, Halton C. and Van Flandern, Tom and Kirilyuk, Andrei P. and Bauer, Henry H. (2008) Against the Tide. A Critical Review by Scientists of How Physics and Astronomy Get Done. UNSPECIFIED.

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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. The authors, 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.


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López Corredoira, Martín
Castro Perelman, Carlos
Campanario, Juan Miguel
Martin, Brian
Kundt, Wolfgang
Herndon, J. Marvin
Apostol, Marian
Arp, Halton C.
Van Flandern, Tom
Kirilyuk, Andrei P.
Bauer, Henry H.
Additional Information: PDF, 188 pages, 13 chapters. Full version (14 chapters) published at: 2008, M. López Corredoira, C. Castro Perelman (Eds.), Universal Publishers, Boca Raton (Florida, USA). Get a paperback copy at: http://www.universal-publishers.com/book.php?method=ISBN&book=1599429934
Keywords: Research-Methodology; Physics; Astronomy; scientometrics; censorship; suppresion of ideas; alternative scientific theories
Subjects: General Issues > Science and Society
General Issues > Ethical Issues
Specific Sciences > Physics > Cosmology
Specific Sciences > Physics
General Issues > Values In Science
General Issues > Science and Policy
Depositing User: Martín López Corredoira
Date Deposited: 30 May 2008
Last Modified: 07 Oct 2010 15:16
Item ID: 4046
Subjects: General Issues > Science and Society
General Issues > Ethical Issues
Specific Sciences > Physics > Cosmology
Specific Sciences > Physics
General Issues > Values In Science
General Issues > Science and Policy
Date: March 2008
URI: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/4046

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