On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 01:46:20PM -0500, Richard Ruquist wrote: > While you may investigate such things you will be at a loss to publish > them except on the internet. Even the Cornell internet archives > arXiv.com refuses to publish such results or such thinking. The last > person to get such thinking published on arXiv was Nobelist Brian > Josephson almost a decade ago http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0312012. > > Thankfully Peter Gibbs has created a similar list vixra.org where > almost anything rejected by arXiv can be published, for example my > last paper http://vixra.org/pdf/1101.0044v1.pdf > Richard
I'm sceptical of Sheldrake's explanation in terms of "morphic fields" (or even monads). It makes no sense. However, the empirical effect he observed may well stand. We should probe such results, test for any methodological flaws, and if they continue to hold up, look for alternative explanations that might work. Of course it is a hard row to hoe. A few years ago, I had some empirical results that literally flew in the face of neutral evolution thoery (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutral_theory_of_molecular_evolution). I could not get these results published, and got treated by scorn by journal referees. Then after about a year of thought, I worked out the mechanism - in the end it was quite a simple, but nevertheless real effect. This time, the paper was accepted without question. You can see the resulting paper at arXiv:nlin.AO/0404012 In spite of thise result having quite profound implications for things like the "molecular clock" idea, AFAIK, nobody has investigated whether anything like this happens in real biology. It does also stand as an example of what is required to publish contra-paradigmatic results. Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
