Secret_History

Chapter 11: Time 511
needs to be understood, because things are getting a little out of hand out there in
the “real” world.
Don’t misunderstand me: there are many very good physicists - real experts - but
they generally don’t get prime-time play in either books or journals because they
are so busy working on trying to really understand what is going on, that they have
little time to play the political games that get them the cushy jobs in the “stables” of
physics, run by “big bosses” who are the interface with the government “approvers”
of funding. And it seems that getting to the Truth of our reality is the last thing the
funding sources wish to see happen in the hallowed halls of academia. 367
Science operates on funding just like everything else. We personally know many
excellent scientists who are toiling away in hot little cubicles, underpaid and
overworked, never using their potential - for what? Just to be able to live, to hope
that one day they will have a little time to breathe, to work on their own ideas, to
make real progress in science. There are also gifted amateurs - those who work in
science for the sheer love of it - and who are excluded from the “good ole boy
network” because they don’t happen to love the politics and aren’t willing to sell
their souls.
And finally, there are those who are masters quoting masters - just because they
can - because they admire themselves and their “master status”. And many of them
discover which masters must be quoted and how to quote them in order to get the
most money for the least amount of work, all the while being considered the
“highest master”.
So it is in any profession; physics is no different.
But that is the “official culture” explanation. We can go back to sleep and get
some rest with this explanation.
The fact is, science is controlled by money. Scientists, for the most part, have to
work on those things that get funding. There is nothing terribly unusual about that
since that is a general rule for everyone. If you don’t get money for your work,
you starve and then you don’t do any work at all. Yes, that’s somewhat simplistic,
but still relevant to the subject here.
The question is: what gets funded? Who decides? What is the context in which
all science is being done?
Bear with me a moment here and let’s apply a little logic to the problem.
The first thing we want to think about is the fact that the word “conspiracy”
evokes such a strong reaction in all of us: nobody wants to be branded as a
“conspiracy theorist”. It just isn’t “acceptable”. It’s “un-scientific” or it’s evidence
of mental instability. Right?
In fact, I bet that even the very reading of the word produces certain
physiological reactions: a slight acceleration of the heartbeat, and perhaps a quick
367 Jadczyk, Arkadiusz, Physic and the Mysterious, 1997, www.cassiopaea.org