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abstract: "Nobody should have a monopoly of the truth in this universe. The censorship and suppression of challenging ideas against the tide of mainstream research, the blacklisting of scientists, for instance, is neither the best way to do and filter science, nor to promote progress in the human knowledge. The removal of good and novel ideas from the scientific stage is very detrimental to the pursuit of the truth. There are instances in which a mere unqualified belief can occasionally be converted into a generally accepted scientific theory through the screening action of refereed literature and meetings planned by the scientific organizing committees and through the distribution of funds controlled by \"club opinions\". It leads to unitary paradigms and unitary thinking not necessarily associated to the unique truth. This is the topic of this book: to critically analyze the problems of the official (and sometimes illicit) mechanisms under which current science (physics and astronomy in particular) is being administered and filtered today, along with the onerous consequences these mechanisms have on all of us.\r\n\r\nThe authors, all of them professional researchers, reveal a pessimistic view of the miseries of the actual system, while a glimmer of hope remains in the \"leitmotiv\" claim towards the freedom in doing research and attaining an acceptable level of ethics in science."
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  - family: López Corredoira
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  - family: Castro Perelman
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  - family: Campanario
    given: Juan Miguel
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  - family: Martin
    given: Brian
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  - family: Kundt
    given: Wolfgang
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  - family: Herndon
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  - family: Apostol
    given: Marian
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  - family: Arp
    given: Halton C.
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  - family: Van Flandern
    given: Tom
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  - family: Kirilyuk
    given: Andrei P.
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  - family: Bauer
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date: 2008
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note: 'PDF, 188 pages, 13 chapters. Full version (14 chapters) published at: 2008, M. López Corredoira, C. Castro Perelman (Eds.), Universal Publishers, Boca Raton (Florida, USA), see http://www.universal-publishers.com/book.php?method=ISBN&book=1599429934'
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title: Against the Tide. A Critical Review by Scientists of How Physics and Astronomy Get Done
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