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12 Suppressed Inventions and Other Discoveries
trol public opinion.
The issues are clear: Who determines scientific truth Who are its high
priests, and what is their warrant How do they establish their canons
What effect do they have on the freedom of inquiry and on public interest
In the end, some judgment must be passed upon the behavior of the scientific
world, and if adverse, some remedies must be proposed.
Philosopher and professor of physical chemistry Michael Polanyi commented
in 1969, referring to the persecution of Velikovsky, that new ideas
in science are not accepted in a rational manner, based on factual evidence,
but instead are determined by random chance, the ruling economic/political
powers, or the ruling ideology.
A recent paper by sociologist Marcell Truzzi, "On the Reception of
Unscientific Claims," delivered at the annual American Academy for the
Advancement of Science, proposed that it is even harder today for new
discoveries and ideas to break through, due to the escalating economics of
research. Truzzi wrote, "Unconventional ideas in science are seldom positively
greeted by those benefitting from conformity." Truzzi predicted
that new forms of vested interest will emerge from today's programs that
must compete for massive funding. He warned, "This has become a growing
and recognized problem in some areas of modern science."
There is another reason for resistance to scientific discoveries. Many of
the major advances have come either from a scientist in another scientific
discipline or from researchers who just don't qualify for membership in
the scientific elite (as in high school "in crowds"). No wonder advances
so often come not from the "in crowd" who are blinded or corrupted by
prevailing dogma.
ORGANIZED MED IGNORES SUCCESS
Currently there exists impressive statistical and clinical (case study) data
on alternative approaches to reversing or controlling some cancers without
the use of chemotherapy, radiation and surgery. But covert politicking
and overly rigid systems of testing and approval suppress these biological
approaches that Americans are increasingly accessing. Desperate cancer
patients rarely learn about all their medical options; in fact, a full 80 percent
of those who travel outside the U.S. for alternative cancer therapies
are so terribly advanced in their diseases that it is too late, even for alternative
approaches. This fact alone obscures the value of these therapies
when they are promptly applied under competent medical supervision and
not tried as a last resort, following, for example, chemotherapy. Chemotherapy
alone can destroy a patient's immune system, and biological
methods usually require a functioning immune system.