WHERE IS THE HERESY ?
Where is the heresy? What is "hard to reconcile with what we know about molecules?"
( D. Herscbach, Nature, 395, 535, 1998).
Why the fuss, excommunication, resentment, insults, injuries and, last but not least, the crash landing of fraud-seeking commandos? Will the eternal "Understand I do not, therefore it is not" prevail forever in science? Can we not say once and for all "bye-bye" to Galileo-style prosecution and replace it with genuine scientific debate? Given my painful ten-year experience, we may as well start by throwing out the 'pire-review' system which has become, behind its facade of excellence, the main antibody blocking the nearly deceased scientific free exchange, which once was the cornerstone of scientific progress. |