Science Guardian

Science Guardian incorporates New AIDS Review,New AIDS Review, Damned Heretics, Damned Heretics and Paradigm Overthrow, Paradigm Overthrow.

Guide to plan and purpose of this blog:

Purpose: The aim of this blog and its pages is to compare claims with the literature and defend the values of science and good scientists in the paradigm wars of HIV/AIDS, cancer, evolution, global warming, nutrition, particle physics, economics, religious belief and any other disputes over new and different ideas in science, health, economics and politics against subjectivity and self-interest, standing up for free speech against the tendency of the authorities to repress unwanted ideas and mining truths buried in the journal literature and commonly overlooked by the media.

We review novel claims without the usual prejudice against modern Galileos, courageous whistleblowers, distinguished mavericks, past or future Nobelists, and any other publicly damned but in fact highly respectable heretics, that is, informed and independent minds (such as the noted scientists Peter Duesberg, James Watson and Kary Mullis) who may question scripture.

The blog aims at balanced commentary on the rival claims of paradigm defenders and informed dissidents, judging truth objectively with reason and evidence and by reading specialist journals and books generally overlooked by busy media reporters and commentators, though not without applying a filter of common sense and carefully reviewing the peer-reviewed scientific and medical record for the influence of power politics, self interest, data management, misinterpretation, religious fervor and other human follies.

The blog is designed to be a guide to better science in public policy through a continuing series of posts highlighting error and confusion in certain scientific fields where paradigms are sustained beyond their shelf life and supported only by politics and propaganda, including a set of links to relevant other sites, which blogroll is lower down in the sidebar on the right.

Since scientific bias and other prejudice in favor of ideas that reward selfish interests generally arises from human nature, we hereby provide a Master List of Sources of Human Bias ie sources of the personal frailties that distort science in the 21st Century and prevent proper attention to the published literature of science, and its clear evidence, for example, that a reigning paradigm such as HIV=AIDS is a grand error:

Activism, arrogance, authority wielding, avarice, backscratching, bootlicking, browbeating, bullying, bureaucratic bumbling and self preservation, careerism, closemindedness, censoring, censoriousness, clubbiness, club membership, coercion, collegiality, competitiveness, confidence tricks, conformity, convention, cooking the books, competing for credit, corruption of power, cowardice, credulity, crowd psychology, currying favor, cv expansion, deceit, defensiveness, delusions of grandeur, gratitude, discretion, dissembling, dogmatism, dreams of glory, embarrassment, empire building, envy, experimental bias, false hope, fanciful theorizing, family loyalty, fashion, fear and loathing, fear mongering, flag waving, flocking, fondness for the status quo, friendship, group loyalty, grant seeking, herd instinct, homophobia, hubris, human error, hypocrisy, iatrogenic ignorance, ideology, illogic, instigating panic, institutional affiliation, intimidation, irrationality, insanity, job retention, kowtowing, lack of controls, laziness, lickspittle press instincts, loyalty to superiors, lying, lynch mob mentality, maintaining parents, wives, mistresses and offspring, masochism, media stenography, mental inertia, mentor allegiance, misdirection, misunderstanding, naivite, narcissism, Nobel hunting, obedience, obeisance, officiousness, opportunism, overclaiming, panic, paradigm protection, patron pandering, peer pressure, perks, preconceptions, privileges and prizes, piety, politicking, political pressures, popularity, power seeking, pseudoscience, prejudice, preserving face, prevarication, pride, protectionism, Ptolemaic rationalizing, public relations, PubMed illiteracy, pusillanimity, racism, rage, rationalization, religion, religious instinct, respectability, reputation enhancing, resistance to change, rivalry, ruthless ambition, sadism, scheming for advancement, self-deception, self-interest, self-justification, self-preservation, self-promotion, scientific illiteracy, shame, sloth, slow wittedness, smug orthodoxy, social ambition, social belonging, status seeking, sheer stupidity, terrorizing, thievery, timidity, toadying, trickery, tribalism, ‘truthiness’, unchecked error copying, uninformed certainty, vanity, venality, veneration, virus hunting, witch hunting, wishful thinking, worship of authority.

Blogroll

The right hand margin of the blog contains all the title links to each post from the start of blog (most recent post at top) and then, below that, the blogroll, links to hundreds of relevant sites, papers and books, ordered according to whether they are accurate, helpful or misleading, with the best in each section starred at the top of the list.

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How to print out posts and comment threads:

Posts are best printed out when they are displayed individually, by clicking the headline of the post, which is a link, because the multi-post front page printout will include the blogroll and list of all posts down the side, which most people do not wish to print out.

To display a post individually click its title, which will display it without the sidebar and allow it to be printed out more conveniently. The printout will not include the remarks visible if any photo is covered by the cursor (refresh as necessary).

Contributions

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Thank you to all supporters and patrons, since we prefer to avoid ads and blog host resources alone are insufficient to fight the propaganda and disinformation of megabillion dollar medico-scientific empires based on scientific fiction.

Please Comment

We are grateful for any appreciation in email or Comments, and remind readers that Voltaire remarked that Appreciation is a wonderful thing: it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

This blog extends the following open invitation to all skeptical realists interested in correcting scientific and social error, including ours.

Please join us in defending science and sense against corrupting human frailties and motivations, as above. If you wish to add your own post, please submit (we do not edit meaning or content except for sense and typos).

All material copyright Science Guardian and New AIDS Review 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 (Anthony Liversidge, Founder and Managing Editor, writing under the nom de plume Truthseeker).

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