[Kevmo]

Looked like an interesting article and I couldn't find it on FR search.

[Kevmo]

Mods:

The title is supposed to be: The Suppression of Inconvenient Facts in Physics

The HTML infected text does not show up on preview. Can you please change the title?

[Kevmo]

Pinging my favorite technofreepers; I thought you might like this article.

[Artemis Webb]

Ya know I was thinking about Ronald Hatch’s Modified Lorentz Aether Theory just the other day while I was eating my fritos.

[MrEdd]

We see the attempted suppression of physics (by supposed engineers) on tech threads all the time here at Free Republic.

The speed at which a vehicle attains maximum fuel efficiency is a determined by a formula referencing it’s mass, gearing, and drag coefficient.

But you will find quite a lot of people here at FR who were taught some goofy shortcut in college that tries to show that speed to be relatively constant at around 55 MPH.

This is not even on the same constant as truth, and anyone who owned one of those heavy muscled family cars in the 60’s and 70’s will tell them so - but it is like talking to a wall.

So sadly this has spread beyond the social liberals.

[SpaceBar]

Fringekookaphobia. When will it end?

[Talisker]

And Maxwell had a lot more than just four equations, too.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Kevmo. :')

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[Cyber Liberty]

I liked it.

[Quix]

The

RELIGION OF SCIENTISM

is one of the most hideous, irrational, narrow, rigid, haughty, brittle, tyrannical, ruthless, punitive . . .

religions on the face of the planet.

It has been so for many decades, at least.

In some respects, Galileo had it easy, by comparison.

. . . except for the deadlier aspects of his situation. LOL.

[Nateman]

I’ve considered cold fusion as hogwash from the start. I still do. If somebody wants to try and make it work nobody is stopping them from wasting their time and money. If they did actually make it work they could get very rich, very fast. They could laugh all the way to the bank ( although with ZERO in charge I’d put the discovery to work in some other country) .

[AdmSmith]

This is Bravo Sierra, but who has the time to refute it? I can assure you that if someone has a better description of something than the present “truth” then the new description will be the next “truth” and so forth. In Science we only have temporary “truth” and are always trying to improve it.

Naturally, some descriptions (such as classical mechanic) are very good and thus a good description of the “truth” while other are bad (What is the heaviest possible stable atom, check my web site “Island of instability”).

[Swordmaker]

The challenges to orthodoxy that are swept under the rug by modern science... PING!

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[wendy1946]

I call this the ‘yuppifaction of science’. Yuppies ruining science in other words.

[monocle]

Ain’t peer review great?

[Old Professer]

Clearly the writer of this piece has an interest in what is often termed ‘free energy’ but if one strips all this away what remains is the essential brotherhood of the established scientific priesthood; what gets published gets read and only that.

[Paradox]

While there may be some kind of truth to this post, as someone who has worked with and personally known many science types, there is far too much competition within science for there to be any real suppression. Sure the Majority may look askance at you for your heretical views, but the potential rewards for the person who is proven right are simply far too great. Nobel prize, scientific immortality, you can imagine.

Most people probably don't understand how competitive being a Scientist is, it can actually be pretty cut throat. In fact, many say that it is TOO competitive, leading to a hoarding of data, information, and resources.

So while there are things like funding that can be scarce for the guy who goes against the grain, the Maverick can come into SUBSTANTIAL reward for being right.

[grey_whiskers]

In a paper titled A Solid-State Maxwell Demon (57) D.P. Sheehan and A.R. Putnam of the departments of Physics and J.H. Wright of the department of Mathematics and Computer science of the University of San Diego have proposed a semiconductor device that would generate useful energy from the thermal noise of an electronic circuit. The authors successfully tested their model on a commercial semiconductor simulator and estimate that the technology necessary to construct a laboratory model will be available by 2007.

It's now past 2007; any follow-up?

Cheers!