The Guardians of Dogma: Part 1 – Defenders of the New Religion

YOWUSA.COM, 21-May-04
Dale Caruso

Historically, there have been few scientific breakthroughs that were not violently opposed, condemned and strongly resisted. It is the belief of most mainstream scientists these days that science has essentially reached 'the end of the road,' that everything that can be understood has been understood, and that, therefore, claims to genuinely revolutionary discoveries must necessarily be erroneous or fraudulent.

Establishment science has thus gotten into the habit of ignoring, burying or suppressing what has now become astonishing amounts of anomalous evidence. Some of this evidence challenges the very foundations of the accepted scientific world view, and none of it is taught in universities or covered by textbooks. Mention any of it to a mainstream scientist, and odds are you will be dismissed as a crank, or worse, a crackpot.

The conclusion is sobering: some of what passes for "scientific fact" these days is little more than a social construct. What is true and what is not is determined by the scientific prestige of the claimant, the predilections of journal editors and referees, and by economic interests. A scientist who challenges the status quo becomes persona non grata - banned from publication in journals and speaking on conferences, experiences a loss of funding and is most certainly marginalized. The victims of this phenomenon include world-class scientists such as Jacques Benveniste, Peter Duesberg, Halton Arp, Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischman.

The New Battlefield -
Science vs. Pseudoscience

According to the Skeptic's Dictionary, "A pseudoscience is set of ideas based on theories put forth as scientific when they are not scientific." Whereas science and scientific theories are, by their definition, "... characterized by such things as (a) being based upon empirical observation rather than the authority of some sacred text; (b) explaining a range of empirical phenomena; c) being empirically tested in some meaningful way, usually involving testing specific predictions deduced from the theory; (d) being confirmed rather than falsified by empirical tests or with the discovery of new facts; (e) being impersonal and therefore testable by anyone regardless of personal religious or metaphysical beliefs; (f) being dynamic and fecund, leading investigators to new knowledge and understanding of the interrelatedness of the natural world rather than being static and stagnant leading to no research or development of a better understanding of anything in the natural world; and (g) being approached with skepticism rather than gullibility, especially regarding paranormal forces or supernatural powers, and being fallible and put forth tentatively rather than being put forth dogmatically as infallible."

Science now views itself as the new religion; in fact, that belief seems to have been enlarged to the view that Science is the only TRUE religion. This may well explain why we tend to believe most all of what mainstream science and academics present to us, virtually without question.

In a very un-scientific and tongue-in-cheek experiment, a group of students at Oxford University, Oxford England set out to test the idea that the general public will believe even the most outlandish information, if we are told it is backed by mainstream science or some other seat of authority.

In 1995, these students conduced a series of tests by going out among the general population. The subjects believed that they were answering an opinion survey about "recent scientific discoveries." Actually, they were responding to blatantly nonsensical "facts" that they had concocted. Among their findings:

• 78% of the subjects believed that "Venus orbits around Jupiter" after being told that "there is scientific proof."
• Before being told about this "scientific proof," 42% of the subjects believed this.
• 84% of the subjects believed that "reading books causes cancer" after they were told that "there is scientific proof." Before being told about this "scientific proof," only 5% of the subjects believed this.
• 63% of the subjects believed that "Apes have evolved from trees" after they were told that "there is scientific proof." Before being told about the "scientific proof," some 9% of the subjects believed this.
• The “Golden Rule" of Arts and Sciences - Whoever has the gold makes the rules

It seems that the Science and some of her most vaulted institutions have fallen falling into politics, of the nonacademic variety. I'm rather surprised that people are only noticing just now.

The traditional view of science is that scientists are searching for the truth in a disinterested and objective way. It is generally admitted that there are occasional dishonest scientists, but these are regarded as highly exceptional.  According to the Association for Skeptical Investigation,

"This self-image of scientists has been subject to much skeptical analysis in recent years. Sociologists of science studying scientific controversies have found that evidence is only one of many factors that influence what is accepted as authoritative. These other factors include funding, prestige, rhetoric and political influence. Seven fascinating case histories of scientific controversy are described in one of the key books in science and technology studies, The Golem: What You Should Know About Science by Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch (Cambridge University Press, second edition ,1998). This book helped trigger off a controversy within the scientific world called "Science Wars", and was attacked by "science warriors" who tried to defend the old image of science. In the words of Collins and Pinch, the science warriors "seemed to think of science as like a fundamentalist religion: mysterious, revealed, hierarchical, exhaustive, exclusive, omnipotent and infallible. The language is that of the Crusade or the Witch Hunt; victory, confession and retraction are the goals wherever heresy is encountered."

Other discussions on the practice of modern science have focused on the political and economic forces that influence it. A recent critique by Daniel S. Greenberg, "Science, Money and Politics: Political Triumph and Ethical Erosion" (University of Chicago Press, 2002), gives a masterly overview of how big science and big government have operated together in post-war America. For 40 years, Greenberg has produced a newsletter, "Science and Government Report," in which he has analyzed Government spending on science.

The scientific establishment was not used to being held up to the same standards of accountability as other special interest groups, but Greenberg showed that time and time again, scientists were as grasping as any other spending department. Far from being pure, research science involved moneygrubbing politics, backroom deals, special pleading, inflated claims and scare-mongering.

Too often, in return the public got shoddy science and waste on a monumental scale.

Another area of concern has been a number of well-publicized cases of scientific fraud. William Broad and Nicholas Wade provided an insightful and comprehensive analysis of fraud and deceit in science in their book Betrayers of the Truth(Oxford University Press, 1985).

As they express it, "The claim of science to represent a reliable body of knowledge rests four-square on the assumption of objectivity, on the assertion that scientists are not influenced by their prejudices or are at least protected from them by the methodology of their discipline.

Scroll down to continue...

Could We See Two Suns in Five Years?

Is it possible we live in a binary solar system with two suns? According to NASA, over 80% of all solar systems have multiple suns, and the historical accounts contained in The Kolbrin Bible, suggest it could be Sol's unborn twin. A destructive brown dwarf  larger than the planet Jupiter, known to the ancients as the Destroyer. 

• "Incredibly Important" —Simon Miller, CA
• "Truth Revealed. Read and Heed"—Al Gorman, GA
• "Very Insightful"—George L. Williams, Bristol, England
• "Made Me Think of Life on the Planet Today"—Barry Wilding, KY

Cable/DSL	Cable/DSL	MP3 Download
56K Dial-up	56K Dial-up	[1:02:09]
WinMedia Player	Real Media Player	Winamp Player

The authors of this 3600 year-old secular anthology tell us it caused Noah's Flood and the Ten Plagues of Exodus, and that it will return soon.  In this special audio report, you'll learn what this new cosmic threat could mean to life as we know it and what our governments are doing about it.

Surviving the Next Global Catastrophe

Free audio report based on the prophecies of The Kolbrin Bible. This 3600-year old wisdom text warns us of an impending global catastrophe and offers time-tested survival knowledge.

Cable/DSL	Cable/DSL	MP3 Download
56K Dial-up	56K Dial-up	[1:14:08]
WinMedia Player	Real Media Player	Winamp Player

Science is not an idealized interrogation of nature by dedicated servants of truth, but a human process governed by the ordinary human passions of ambition, pride and greed, as well as by all the well-hymned virtues attributed to men of science." Dogmatic skeptics often try to discreditresearch in unorthodox areas by accusing researchers of fraud and deceit, but Broad and Wade conclude that fraud is much more likely to be successful in mainstream, uncontroversial areas of research. In controversial areas there is usually a far greater degree of skepticism and scrutiny. "Acceptance of fraudulent results is the other side of that familiar coin, resistance to new ideas.

Prof David Fontana, PhD, University of Wales says:

"Fraudulent results are likely to be accepted in science if they are plausibly presented, if they conform with prevailing prejudices and expectations, and if they come from a suitably qualified scientists affiliated with an  institution. It is for lack of all these qualities that new ideas in science are likely to be resisted."

Bias in science has long been a problem, and it requires not only the best of intentions but hard work and a scrupulous, carefully designed framework to avoid it. Policies like having a control group, double-blind testing, devising an analysis framework ignorant of the results it would produce and refusing to tweak it in order to 'sharpen' the results are only the first step. Somebody (usually a poor grad student) has to exhaustively check the data --- significant outliers have to be explained, or at the very least acknowledged. At every stage, somebody has to play the devil's advocate, and do so with zest and vigor.

Ultimately, these are no guarantee against bad results -- they are not even a guarantee against biased results. As Chris Roe, Ph.D. Psychology Division, University College, Northampton, UK observes, "...there's a continuum -- between highlighting but failing to explain bad data, to downplaying its significance, to ignoring it, to pretending it doesn't exist, to out-and-out falsification. And this process can't even begin without the assumption of honesty and humility on the part of the participants. When you have a politicized topic, with key players deeply interested in seeing a particular outcome, what do you expect?"

Could There Be Another Einstein?

One final thought - if you fancy yourself to be an amateur scientist, whether archeology, astronomy, geology, or meteorology, do take comfort in the fact that you are in some very, very good company. : Erwin Schrodinger and Albert Einstein were confirmed pseudo-scientists, and their ideas were officially banned in Hitler's Germany, labeling them "Jewish Science".

Einstein and Lawrence were confirmed pseudo-scientists, and their ideas were officially banned in Stalin's USSR, labeling them "Bourgeois Imperialist Science".

After all, who was this Albert Einstein? A mediocre patent office clerk in Zurich. Had a degree, true. Not too good at mathematics. (Another Fred Astaire - Can’t act, can’t sing, slightly bald, can dance - a little.)

Today, Einstein wouldn't stand a chance with our Guardians of Dogma. The debunking would be immediate, scathing, and thoroughly political.

Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Disinformation — Propaganda Experts Philip Gardiner and Marshall Vian Summers

Disinformation attacks are like pornography. We know them when we see them and eventually, a few brave souls come forward to call it what it is. Encouraged by their example, others add their voices until the offenders retreat to strike elsewhere. This has been business as usual with Planet X / Nibiru and 2012 research until the beginning of this year. However, since February 2008, a new and ominous trend has developed.

There is a rapidly growing number of well funded, wolf pack disinformation attacks against whistle blowers, and the research groups such as yowusa.com that report on them. The two-fold aim of these highly organized, teams of operatives is clear. To suppress emerging truths as quickly as possible, and to do it in such a manner as to cause the greatest number of onlookers to say, "I don't get involved."

Stream for Free (Cable/DSL/56K Dial-up)

Also For Your Listening Pleasure

• How the Founding Fathers Would Prepare Us for Planet X
• About the Planet X Forecast and 2012 Survival Guide
• Could We See Two Suns in Five Years?
• Full Listing of All Cut to the Chase Shows

Yowusa.com Companion Sites

2012planetx.com — Research Links

This site features hundreds of research links. Continually updated, they're organized according to the Table of Contents for the Planet X Forecast and 2012 Survival Guide.

2012planetx.info — 2012 News Blog

Your online source for late breaking 2012 and Planet X news and information. This blog is updated several times each week so e sure to read it online, or it to your list of RSS news feeds.

planetxforecast.com — 2012 Community Site

For those who already know Planet X and 2012 — we know you. If you're alone in your awareness, know this, you're not alone. Meet like-minded thinkers in our Planet X and 2012 Survivor's Town Hall

kolbrin.com — Planet X History and Prophecy

This site features a freely available, selection of articles, audios and videos based on The Kolbrin Bible. According to Greg Jenner, Planet X and the Kolbrin Bible Connection author and historian, "The Kolbrin Bible is the Rosetta Stone of Planet X!" 

Surviving 2012 and Planet X Video

This 5-part video series offers a straightforward view of this coming human event. Produced and hosted by Marshall Masters, a former CNN science feature field producer, it is an ideal Planet X / 2012 primer for those new to this vital topic.

As the co-author and publisher of Planet X Forecast and 2012 Survival Guide, Marshall believes that 2012 will be a survivable, evolutionary event.

Stream for Free (YouTube, iTunes and more)

Spread the Word Audio and Data CD-Extra

Knowledge brings the weight of responsibility with it, especially when knowing can mean the difference between life and death. This copyable Data Audio and Data CD-Extra is included with every book purchased form this site, and Yowusa.com Global Standard Subscriptions. GO

Subscribe to: YOWUSA.COM Announcements |

Name:
Email:

We do not share or sell our mail lists.