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"I can easily conceive . . . that as soon as some
people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I
ascribe certain motions to the Earth, they will cry
out at once that I and my theory should be rejected."

-- Nicolaus Copernicus --

"I was compelled by logic and by evidence to penetrate into
so many premises of the house of science. I freely admit
to having repeatedly caused fires, though the candle
in my hand was carried only for illumination."

-- Immanuel Velikovsky --

Now we have a situation where new facts are judged by
whether they fit old theories. If they do not, they
are condemned with the judgement:

"There is no way of explaining the observations,
so they cannot be true."

That encourages the dissident to come up with an
explanation of how it could be true. It disagrees
with convention. Then the jaws of the trap spring
shut and the theory is labeled:

"....prima facia evidence that the proponent is a
crackpot and the evidence is false."

-- Halton Arp --

There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong.
That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to
finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting
process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the
most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny.

-- Carl Sagan --

Sorry, folks, this page is under construction.

In the mean time, here are some links:

http://www.varchive.org/

http://www.haltonarp.com/

http://www.poleshift.org/Charles_Hapgood.html

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