I think this is more about who is the gatekeeper to the ideology and business of science rather than any exercise in ethics.
The gatekeeper class resents this clique of stiff necked maverick scientists who have the temerity to violate the status quo and defies the picking order in their profession. It’s all about who has the power and who makes the money and influence more than concern for more esoteric ethical considerations. Don’t be fooled by the words they say, it is the violation of their rules and interests that concerns them most. The works are designed to befuddle the naïve and the gullible to genuflect before the throne of their august authority, On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > David Roberson <dlrober...@aol.com> wrote: > > >> Josh, what is common sense now becomes ancient history when the newest >> theories come out. . . . >> >> You need to realize that all knowledge does not reside within your >> understanding. All of us should be open to learning new concepts and it is >> about time for you to give LENR a fair chance. >> > > Bill Beaty has an excellent quote on this subject, here: > > http://amasci.com/weird/vmore.html > > "Every fact of science was once damned. Every invention was considered > impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every > artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of > culture and 'progress,' everything on earth that is man-made and not given > to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man's refusal to bow > to Authority. We would own no more, know no more, and be no more than the > first apelike hominids if it were not for the rebellious, the recalcitrant, > and the intransigent. As Oscar Wilde truly said, 'Disobedience was man's > Original Virtue.'" - Robert Anton Wilson > >
