Science Guardian

Paradigms and power in science and society

Comparing mainstream claims in science and technology and received wisdom in society with the published record, we defend honest, accomplished, independent minded and often heroic scientists (Peter Duesberg, Serge Lang, Harvey Bialy, Kary Mullis, Henry Bauer, Jim Watson, Peter Medawar, Erwin Chargaff, Richard Feynman, Linus Pauling, James Hansen, Fred Singer, Richard Lindzer, Rainer Plaga, Otto Rossler, Michio Kaku, David Rasnick, Rebecca Culshaw, Ernst Krebs, Mark Leggett, Adrian Kent) and their good science against the censorship, mudslinging, false arguments, ad hominem propaganda, overwhelming group prejudice and internal science politics of the paradigm wars of cancer, HIV/AIDS, evolution, global warming, collider physics, health, medicine and nutrition, as well as from time to time promoting truth in personal technology by celebrating items of genuinely high quality from those overpromoted in the media.

Here we measure truth only by the professional and scholarly literature in peer reviewed journals, well researched books, and the investigative reporting and reviews of well informed original thinkers among academics, philosophers, researchers, scholars, authors, and journalists (John Lauritsen, Celia Farber, Liam Scheff, Robert Houston, Claus Jensen, Anthony Liversidge, James Blodgett, Jim Tankersley, John Tierney, Bob Herbert, Dennis Overbye, Marcus Cohen, Gary Null, Walter Wagner, Luis Sancho, Toby Ord and Eric Johnson) too often scorned, shortchanged or damned by publicly irresponsible scientists and other authorities living off the status quo.

Thus we hope to combat the influence of the running dog lackeys of those in power who mislead us in science and society, namely compliant media editors, unquestioning science reporters, ignorant publishers, fellow traveling pharma activists and other invested parties, and their misled congregation of patients, doctors, politicians, officials, charity workers, foundation staff, celebrities, bloggers and innocent members of the confused but trusting general public who may naively assume that leading scientists and other gurus are not subject to the laws of human nature, by which personal rewards and group goals can trump professional conscience and the public interest.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: “O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.” And God granted it. – Voltaire

Everything that one thinks about a lot becomes problematic. – Friedrich Nietzsche

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. – Saki (H. H. Munro).

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