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Against the Tide

A Critical Review by Scientists of How Physics
and Astronomy Get Done
by Martmn Lspez Corredoira & Carlos Castro Perelman
(Editors)
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URL: http://www.iac.es/galeria/martinlc/
• Number of Pages: 265
• ISBN-10: 1599429934
• ISBN-13: 9781599429939
• Publisher: Universal Publishers
• Year: 2008
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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.
About The Author
Editors:
Martmn Lspez Corredoira is a researcher at the Instituto de Astrofmsica
de Canarias (Tenerife, Spain). He holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University
of La Laguna at Tenerife and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of
Seville (Spain). He has authored articles in peer reviewed journals of
astrophysics, and two books on philosophy in Spanish: Dialogos entre Razsn
y Sentimiento and Somos Fragmentos de Naturaleza Arrastrados por Sus
Leyes.
Carlos Castro Perelman is a researcher affiliated with the Center for
Theoretical Studies of Physical Systems at Clark Atlanta University (USA). He
has a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Texas at Austin and a B.S. from
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of over 115
articles on such topics as: the extended relativity theory in Clifford spaces,
gravity, supersymmetry, strings, p-branes, fractals, quantum field theory,
mathematical physics, number theory.

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