Science Guardian

Paradigms and power in science and society

Qualified outsiders and maverick insiders are very often right about the need to replace received wisdom in science and society. This site exists to back the best of them in their uphill assault on the massively entrenched edifice of resistance to and prejudice against reviewing, let alone revising, ruling ideas.

In support of such dissenters and other courageous heretics in a world of organized group think, we search for paradigms and other established beliefs which may be maintained only by the power and politics of the status quo, comparing mainstream wisdom in science and society with academic research and the published experimental and investigative record.

We especially defend and support the funding of honest, accomplished, independent minded and often heroic scientists and other original thinkers in their right to free speech and publication against the censorship, mudslinging, false arguments, ad hominem propaganda, overwhelming group prejudice and internal science politics of the paradigm wars of cancer, AIDS, evolution, global warming, cosmology, particle physics, macroeconomics, health and medicine, diet and nutrition.
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HONOR ROLL OF SCIENTIFIC TRUTHSEEKERS

Henry Bauer, Harvey Bialy, Giordano Bruno, Erwin Chargaff, Nicolaus Copernicus,
Marie Curie, Rebecca Culshaw, Freeman Dyson, Peter Duesberg, Albert Einstein,
Richard Feynman, Galileo Galilei, James Hansen, Michio Kaku, Adrian Kent,
Ernst Krebs, Serge Lang, Mark Leggett, Richard Lindzen, Lynn Margulis,
Marco Mamone Capria, Peter Medawar, Kary Mullis, Linus Pauling, Eric Penrose.
Rainer Plaga, David Rasnick, Carl Sagan, Otto Rossler, Fred Singer, James Watson.
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Many people would die rather than think – in fact, they do so. – Bertrand Russell.

Skepticism is dangerous. That’s exactly its function, in my view. – Carl Sagan

It is really important to underscore that everything we’re talking about tonight could be utter nonsense. – Brian Greene (NYU panel on Hidden Dimensions June 5 2010, World Science Festival)

No snowflake in a snowstorm ever feels responsible. - Voltaire

One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways. – Bertrand Russell (Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 9)

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