San Diego, California, Aug. 1, 2011 -- FDR’s dream of the benefits of post-WWII government-supported civilian science over time has become a nightmare, according to scientist J. Marvin Herndon, in a article published in The Dot Connector magazine which exposes the widespread, institutional corruption of American science and traces its origin to the flawed methodologies invented in the 1950s by the National Science Foundation and in use at virtually all U. S. Government science-funding agencies.

Quote: “… for more than half a century, the U. S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has been doing what no foreign power or terrorist organization can do: Slowly, imperceptibly undermining American scientific capability, driving America toward third-world status in science and in education, corrupting individuals and institutions, rewarding the deceitful and the institutions that they serve, stifling creative science, and infecting the whole scientific community with flawed anti-science practices based upon an unrealistic vision of human behavior”.

According to the article, this is the legacy: Secret reviews, White House acquiescence, blacklisting, suppression of scientific contradictions by special-interest cartels, fear to contradict, fear to cite contradictions, fear to teach anything but committee-consensus science, deception through systematically ignoring scientific advances, in the scientific community and at NASA.

Herndon describes institutionalized blacklisting here, in America, bought and paid for by the National Science Foundation, through a computerized author-self-publishing archive (arXiv.org) where scientists have posted hundreds of thousands of scientific papers without human intervention, except those individuals who without recourse are “denounced”, singled out for disparate treatment by a secret group of insiders; their papers either do not post or are “buried” in an inappropriate category, such as general physics or general mathematics, where it is unlikely they will be seen.

Quote: “Instead of obeying that law that established it, the U. S. National Science Foundation placed into the hands of one major, well-financed competitor a powerful tool (arXiv.org) that could, not only be applied arbitrarily with capricious standards against its competitors, but through such actions would cast the shadow of fear at being “denounced” in secret and thereupon being blacklisted, further ensuring “politically correct” consensus conformity and science suppression.”

The author asks the question: Has the National Academy of Sciences ever advised the U. S. Government of the flaws in the operating procedures of science-funding agencies that are corrupting and trivializing American science?

The article describes the institutional suppression of work revealing scientific mistakes that have cost taxpayers untold millions of dollars and which will continue to waste money on futile investigations while ignoring important global implications.

Quote: “Because of the global catastrophic significance, suppressing science related to the possibility of very rapid geomagnetic field changes, in my view, is tantamount to a betrayal of trust, an act of treason, against humanity.”

This is why, the article asserts, despite ever-increasing budgets, American science and science education continue declining to third-world status as they have for decades.

Corruption of Science in America (click here to download pdf)

 The Dot Connector Magazine (click here)

The U. S. National Science Foundation (NSF) literally "wrote the book" on how it and subsequent U. S. Government agencies should fund scientific research, but it made a series of serious flaws. J. Marvin Herndon reveals those flaws, the principal cause of America's decline in science, and poses practical remedies. See American Science Decline: The Cause and Cure (click here).

Peer Review Folly (click_here). On December 16, 2004, an individual in the White House to whom J. Marvin Herndon had complained about the inequity of “peer review” sent him a copy of the U. S. Office of Management and Budget’s “Final Information Quality Bulletin for Peer Review: December 15, 2004”. On December 26, 2004, Herndon sent to the White House his critique of that Bulletin and recommendations for systemic changes, which were neither appreciated nor implemented. Six years later, the U. S. Government still conducts peer review according to that Bulletin, and American science continues to decline. Have responsible officials never heard the phrase: “Find out what’s wrong and fix it”?

Science Suppression by the National Science Foundation (click here) Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" describes a fire department whose function had changed to one of burning books. In like manner, the National Science Foundation now supports science suppression.

Science Suppression by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (click here) Herndon's concept and scientific development of planetocentric nuclear fission reactors has been thoroughly vetted in the international science community and is widely applicable to planetary and satellite magnetic field generation and internal heating, but it is rarely, if ever, referenced in NASA publications or by NASA-funded investigators. This is why.

Science Suppression by the American Astronomical Society (click here) The By-laws of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) clearly state: "As a professional society, the AAS must provide an environment that encourages the free expression and exchange of scientific ideas." But apparently not where J. Marvin Herndon is concerned.

Science Misrepresentation by the U. S. Department of Energy (click here) Science is about truth, not deception, not misrepresentation. U. S. Government-funded scientists, instead of being truthful about Herndon's georeactor concept, blatantly misrepresent science with impunity and with the acquiescence of the U. S. Department of Energy.

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