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Against the Tide

Against
Nobody should have a monopoly of the truth in this universe.The censorship
and suppression of challenging ideas against the tide of mainstream
research, the blacklisting of scientists, for instance, is neither the best way
to do and filter science, nor to promote progress in human knowledge. The
removal of good and novel ideas from the scientific stage is very detrimental
to the pursuit of the truth. There are instances in which a mere unqualified
belief can occasionally be converted into a generally accepted scientific
theory through the screening action of refereed literature and meetings

Tide
planned by the scientific organizing committees and through the distribu-
tion of funds controlled by "club opinions". It leads to unitary paradigms and
unitary thinking not necessarily associated to the unique truth. This is the
topic of this book: to critically analyze the problems of the official (and
sometimes illicit) mechanisms under which current science (physics and
astronomy in particular) is being administered and filtered today, along with
the onerous consequences these mechanisms have on all of us.

Apart from the editors, Juan Miguel Campanario, Brian Martin, Wolfgang
the
Kundt, J. Marvin Herndon, MarianApostol, HaltonC.Arp,TomVan Flandern,
Andrei P. Kirilyuk, Dmitri Rabounski and Henry H. Bauer, all of them profes- A Critical Review
sional researchers, reveal a pessimistic view of the miseries of the actual
by Scientists of How

López Corredoira & Castro Perelman (Eds.)

system, while a glimmer of hope remains in the "leitmotiv" claim towards
the freedom in doing research and attaining an acceptable level of ethics in
science. Physics & Astronomy Get Done
Martín López Corredoira is a Carlos Castro Perelman is a
researcher at the Instituto de researcher affiliated with the Center
Astrofísica de Canarias (Tenerife, for Theoretical Studies of Physical
Spain). He holds a Ph.D. in Physics Systems at Clark Atlanta University
from the University of La Laguna at (USA). He has a Ph.D. in Physics from
Tenerife and a Ph.D. in Philosophy the University ofTexas at Austin and a
from the University of Seville (Spain). B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute
He has authored articles in peer of Technology. He is the author of
reviewed journals of astrophysics, over 115 articles on such topics as: the
and two books on philosophy in extended relativity theory in Clifford
Spanish: Diálogos entre Razón y spaces, gravity, supersymmetry,
Sentimiento and Somos Fragmentos strings, p-branes, fractals, quantum
de Naturaleza Arrastrados por Sus field theory, mathematical physics,
Leyes. number theory.

ISBN 159942993-4
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Edited by
Martín López Corredoira
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Carlos Castro Perelman