Kicking the Sacred Cow Book

	Introduction: Engineering and the Truth Fairies	1
Section 1	Humanistic Religion: The Rush to Embrace Darwinism	9
	Science, Religion, and Logic	11
	Darwinism and the New Order	13
	The Triumph of the Enlightenment	13
	The Original in "Origins": Something for Everyone	14
	A Cultural Monopoly	16
	Sweeping Claims--and Reservations	17
	By Scaffolding to the Moon	17
	Rocks of Ages--The Fossil Record	19
	Slow-Motion Miracles. The Doctrine of Gradualism	19
	Life's Upside-Down Tree: The First Failed Prediction	21
	Flights of Fancy: The Birds Controversy	25
	Lines of Horses	27
	Keeping Naturalism Pure: Orthogenesis Wars	30
	Anything, Everything, and Its Opposite: Natural Selection	31
	Dissent in the Ranks: Logical Fallacy and Tautology	31
	Moth Myths. The Crowning Proof?	33
	The Origin of Originality? Genetics and Mutation	34
	Recombination: Answering the Wrong Question	34
	Random Mutation: Finally, The Key to New Things Under the Sun	35
	An Automated Manufacturing City	36
	The Blind Gunman: A Long, Hard Look at the Odds	38
	But it Happened! Science or Faith?	40
	Life as Information Processing	41
	Evolution Means Accumulating Information	41
	Bacterial Immunity Claims: A False Information Economy	42
	More Bacteria Tales: Directed Mutation	44
	And So, Back to Finches	44
	Confronting the Unthinkable	45
	Intelligence at Work? The Crux of It All	46
	Darwin's Black Box Opened: Biochemistry's Irreducible Complexity	47
	Acknowledging the Alternative: Intelligent Design	50
	Is Design Detectable?	52
	Philosophers' Fruit-Machine Fallacy	54
	Testing for Intelligence	54
	Section Notes	58
Section 2	Of Bangs and Braids: Cosmology's Mathematical Abstractions	61
	Mathematical Worlds--and This Other One	63
	Cosmologies as Mirrors	63
	Matters of Gravity: Relativity's Universes	65
	An Aside on Spectra and Redshifts	66
	A Universe in the Red and Lemaitre's Primeval Atom	67
	After the Bomb: The Birth of the Bang	69
	Gamow's Nuclear Pressure-Cooker	69
	Hoyle and Supernovas as "Little Bang" Element Factories	71
	The Steady-State Theory	72
	The Cosmic Background Radiation: News but Nothing New	73
	Quasar and Smoothness Enigmas: Enter, the Mathematicians	75
	The Plasma Universe	78
	Hannes Alfven, the Pioneer: Cosmic Cyclotrons	78
	The Solar System as a Faraday Generator	80
	A Skater's Waltz Among the Planets	81
	Solar System to Galaxy	83
	Peratt's Models and Simulations: Galaxies in the Laboratory	84
	An Explanation for X-ray Flashes	85
	Eric Lerner and the Plasma Focus	86
	Going All the Way: Galaxies to the Universe	88
	Older Than the Big Bang	89
	Other Ways of Making Light Elements	90
	And of Producing Expansion	91
	Redshift Without Expansion at All	93
	Molecular Hydrogen: The Invisible Energy-Absorber	93
	The Ultimate Heresy
	Questioning the Hubble Law	95
	Halton Arp's Quasar Counts	95
	Taking on an Established Church	98
	Eyes Closed and Eyes Open: Professionals and Amateurs	101
	Quasar Cascades: Redshifts as a Measure of Galaxy Age	102
	What Happens to the Distances?	104
	What Causes Redshift? Machian Physics and the Generalization of GRT	105
	The God of the Modern Creation Myth	108
	Section Notes	110
Section 3	Drifting in the Ether: Did Relativity Take A Wrong Turn?	111
	Some Basics	115
	Reference Frames and Transforms	115
	Inertial Frames	116
	Extending Classical Relativity	117
	Problems with Electrodynamics	117
	Maxwell's Constant Velocity	119
	Michelson, Morley, and the Ether That Wasn't	121
	Lorentz's Transforms for Electromagnetics	123
	The New Relativity	124
	Einstein: Transforming All of Physics	124
	Relativity's Weird Results	126
	Unifying Physics	128
	Dissident Viewpoints	130
	Elegant, Yes. But Is It Really Useful?	130
	Lorentz's Ether Revisited	131
	Entraining the Ether	133
	Field-Referred Theories	135
	Electromagnetic Mass: Increase Without Einstein	137
	Gravity and Electromagnetics	140
	Does "Time" Dilate? Or Do Clocks Run Slower?	143
	The Famous Faster-Than-Light Question	145
	Section Notes	150
Section 4	Catastrophe of Ethics: The Case for Taking Velikovsky Seriously	151
	Early Work: The Makings of an Iconoclast	154
	How It All Began: A Small Question About the Exodus	154
	Implications of Catastrophism	158
	Venus and the Cosmic Connection	159
	The Universal War God: Mars	163
	Worlds in Collision	164
	The End of Everything You Thought You Knew	164
	Science in Convulsion: The Reactions	168
	Testimony from the Rocks: Earth in Upheaval	173
	The Fossil Graveyards	173
	Earthmoving and Excavation	174
	Orthodoxy in Confusion	175
	Embarrassing Confirmations	175
	More Electrical Heresies: Charges and Counter-Charges	178
	A New View of Planets: Violent Origins; Rapid Change	179
	Rejected Call for Reappraisal	181
	The Planets Speak, Regardless	184
	Slaying the Monster: The AAAS Velikovsky Symposium, 1974	188
	A Glimpse of the Ground Rules	189
	Only the Data That's Fit to Print: The Venus Tablets	193
	Pronouncements from the Celestial Heights	197
	Carl Sagan: The Star Billing	200
	Sagan on Astronomy	201
Problem 1.	The Ejection of Venus by Jupiter	201
Problem 2.	Repeated Collisions Among the Earth, Venus, And Mars	203
Problem 3.	The Earth's Rotation	204
	Sagan on Terrestrial and Lunar Geology	205
Problem 4.	Terrestrial Geology And Lunar Craters	205
	Sagan on Planetary Biology and Chemistry	207
Problem 5.	Chemistry & Biology of the Terrestrial Planets	207
Problem 6.	Manna	211
Problem 7.	The Clouds of Venus	212
	Sagan on Planetary Physics and Surfaces	214
Problem 8.	The Temperature of Venus	214
Problem 9.	The Craters of Venus	218
Problem 10.	The Circularization of the Orbit of Venus	219
	After the Inquisition: The Parallel Universe	220
	Section Notes	223
Section 5	Environmentalist Fantasies: Politics and Ideology Masquerading As Science	225
	Garbage In, Gospel Out
	Computer Games and Global Warming	231
	A Comfortable Natural Greenhouse	232
	Twiddling with Models	233
	Meanwhile, in the Real World...	234
	But the 0.5[degree]C Net Rise Is Still There: If the CO[subscript 2] Increase Didn't Do It, What Did?	238
	Global Greening	243
	The Bandwagon Rolls Regardless	245
	How the Real Scientists Feel	247
	Holes in the Ozone Logic: But Timely for Some	248
	Ozone Basics	249
	The Depletion Controversy	251
	Creating Catastrophe: The Wizards of Ozone	256
	A Few Coincidences	258
	Saving The Mosquitoes: The War On DDT	262
	Some Background Intelligence: Malaria	262
	Opening Assault: Silent Spring	266
	The Offensive Develops	269
	The 1971 EPA Hearings	271
	Well-Designed, Well-Executed Experiments: DDT as a Carcinogen	271
	A Plague of Birds	276
	Cracking Open the Eggshell Claims	278
	Everywhere, and Indestructible	282
	The Scientists' Findings and the Administrator's Ruling	284
	"Vitamin R": Radiation Good for Your Health	286
	Radiation Phobia	286
	"The Dose Makes the Poison": Hormesis	287
	Rip-Out Rip-Off: The Asbestos Racket	292
	Asbestos and the WTC Towers	292
	Insulated from Reality	293
	Makers and Takers	295
	Section Notes	297
Section 6	Closing Ranks: AIDS Heresy In The Viricentric Universe	301
	An Industry Out of Work	304
	Storm-Cloud Over the Parade	306
	Anatomy of an Epidemic	309
	Questioning the Infectious Theory	310
(1)	The microbe must be found in all cases of the disease	312
(2)	The microbe must be isolated from the host and grown in a pure culture	312
(3)	The microbe must be capable of reproducing the original disease when introduced into a susceptible host	313
(4)	The microbe must be found present in the host so infected	313
	Science by Press Conference	313
	Biology's Answer to Dark Matter? The Virus That Isn't There	315
	An Epidemic of AIDS Testing	318
	Testing for What?	319
	Biotechnology's Xerox Machine	320
	The Export Industry: Africa and Asia	321
	"Side Effects" Just Like AIDS: The Miracle Drugs	324
	Liquid Plumber: AZT	324
	Protease Inhibitors. Hype Uninhibited	326
	A Virus Fixation	328
	Section Notes	330
	Afterword: Gothic Cathedrals and the Stars	331
	Section Notes	340
	References & Further Reading	341
	Index	355
	List of Illustrations
1.1	The "Tree of Life" as envisioned in a Victorian textbook	22
1.2	Increase in the number of animal phyla with time	23
1.3	Binary Decision Tree	56
2.1	Spectra: continuous and line	67
2.2	Simulation of plasma currents	85
2.3	The radio galaxy Cygnus A	87
2.4	Galaxy and quasar counts by apparent magitude	97
2.5	Quasar pair straddling Seyfert galaxy	100
2.6	Nucleus of Seyfert galaxy Seyfert galaxy NGC4151	102
2.7	Quantization of galactic redshifts	105
3.1	Field lines around stationary and moving charges	138
3.2	Terrestrial magnetosphere and hierarchy of magnetospheres	142
4.1	Velikovskian orbits	186
4.2	Babylonian Innana symbols	194
5.1	Atmospheric carbon dioxide over the last 400 years	235
5.2	U.S. and global temperature variations	236
5.3	Predictions of greenhouse models versus observed values	239
5.4	Temperature variations with solar activity for the last 250 years	240
5.5	Climate record for the last 3,000 years	242
5.6	Natural sources of chlorine compared to production of CFCs	254
5.7	EPA version of ozone trends compared to natural cycle	257
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