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Section II
The Suppression
of Unorthodox
Science
The history of science is hardly the history of free inquiry. Rarely does
science engage in self-examination, whether scientifically or simply reflectively.
Occasionally we may benefit from the perspectives of those
observers and historians from outside this branch of knowledge, who seek
to bring to the world some solid wisdom. More frequently they fail to
awaken interest within a rigid system that believes, as Organized Science
does, that all mistakes were committed in the past. ("We might have got it
wrong with Galileo and Semmelweis, but that was then.") Seldom is truth
met with unconditional acceptance in professions that are not renowned
for their engaging humility and willingness to embrace information that
conflicts with their cherished and well-defended beliefs.
And so Freud was leaned on to radically alter his seduction theory.
Under duress from colleagues, he lost concern for the welfare of sexually
abused and beaten children. Rather, from 1894 onward he helped to found
a system that blames the victim, turning his original thinking on its
head—it's the children who try to seduce the parents! Only then could he
find acceptance in the Viennese community of psychologists who then
launched him on his stellar career.
Freud's case was not isolated. Wilhelm Reich's books were publicly
burned by the FBI in a New York City incinerator in 1957; Immanuel
Velikovsky's work was trashed by the U.S. scientific establishment, his
publisher leaned on to offload his contract—in the middle of a bestseller;
and Julius Hensel's pioneering work on "rock dust" fertiliser was suppressed
by the NPK people who had something big to sell the world. So
what if everyone is now lacking in essential trace minerals as a result
Pat Flanagan's Neurophone patent was confiscated by the U.S. government
and held for fourteen years—for "national security reasons"—while
this most brilliant of brilliant American scientists was starved out. And
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