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http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a909857880
"The gatekeepers of professional physics in the universities and
research institutes are disinclined to support or employ anyone who
raises problems over the elementary inconsistencies of relativity. A
winnowing out process has made it very difficult for critics of
Einstein to achieve or maintain professional status. Relativists are
then able to use the argument of authority to discredit these critics.
Were relativists to admit that Einstein may have made a series of
elementary logical errors, they would be faced with the embarrassing
question of why this had not been noticed earlier. Under these
circumstances the marginalisation of antirelativists, unjustified on
scientific grounds, is eminently justifiable on grounds of
realpolitik. Supporters of relativity theory have protected both the
theory and their own reputations by shutting their opponents out of
professional discourse."

A somewhat outdated account of the situation. Relativists are no
longer relativists (they have all left the sinking ship recently) and,
accordingly, do not have to admit anything. Antirelativists reclaiming
old Newtonian physics are marginalised automatically, without any
quarrel - the world of Postscientism simply does not hear their wails.
Imagine a musician reclaiming this kind of music:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqgHCksUQok (Part 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1OS0bSsI_k (Part 2)
(Anne-Sophie Mutter plays Giuseppe Tartini "The Devil's Trill")

This musician would likewise be marginalised automatically in the
world of rap music.

Pentcho Valev wrote:

Karl Popper's ethical problems:

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a909857880
Peter Hayes: "Popper obscures but does not altogether hide the
extraordinary implications of his tentative suggestion that Lorentz
and Newton may not have been superseded after all. We see a kind of
internal duel in which Popper the falsificationist scientist wrestles
with Popper the ideological defender of Einstein. The result is a
messy draw in which, through what can only be called a series of
unsatisfactory auxiliary hypotheses, Popper attempts to retain the
idea that Einstein's relativity theory represents some form of
scientific advance even in if absolute space and time remain intact.
Thus, Einsteins other achievements are emphasised and the difference
between Einstein and Lorentz is minimised (Popper 1982, 29, 35, 48,
158). Finally, the very concept of scientific advance is adapted to
fit the new circumstances:
Karl Popper: "The decisive thing about Einstein's theory, from my
point of view, is that it has shown that Newton's theory - which has
been more successful than any other theory ever proposed - can be
replaced by an alternative theory which is of wider scope, and which
is so related to Newton's theory that every success of Newtonian
theory is also a success for that theory, and which in fact makes
slight adjustments to some results of Newtonian theory. So for me,
this logical situation is more important than the question which of
the two theories is in fact the better approximation to the
truth" (Popper 1982, 2930)."

Pentcho Valev
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