Alternative Science
Richard Milton
$15.95
Softcover, illus., 272 pages
Four left. Cold fusion. Telepathy. Psychokinesis. Bioenergy. Alternative medicine. Science banishes these fields of research to the world of superstition, and everywhere scientists lose their jobs, funding, and respect for merely conducting research in these fields. Yet in this compelling tour of the scientific frontier, Richard Milton makes clear what the scientific establishment takes such pains to deny: a growing body of hard experimental evidence already exists to support these and other areas
of alternative science. Milton reveals the surprising results of this suppressed research and takes these results a step further: he shows that the surge of fundamentalism in the West has infected the scientific community as well; that we are living in a time of growing academic intolerance.
Human progress has been powered by the paradigm-shattering inventions of brilliant iconoclasts, yet just as the scientific community dismissed Edison's Lamp, Roentgen's X-rays, and even the Wrights' airplane, today's "Paradigm Police" do a better job of preserving an outdated mode of thought than of nurturing invention and discovery. Alternative Science introduces the individuals who are bucking this conservative trend, and makes the case that the alternative science of the present is destined to be the hard science of the future.
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