gnidrologs (![[info]](http://klab.lv/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} gnidrologs) rakstīja,@ 2017-07-01 12:27:00 |
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The case of Virginia Steen-McIntyre is instructive. She and her colleagues, using a variety of techniques, obtained an age of about 250,000 to 300,000 years for the Hueyatlaco site in Mexico, where stone tools of a type made only by anatomically modern humans were uncovered by archeologists. The archeologists, committed to a recent origin of modern humans (100,000 years) and an even more recent entry of modern humans into the Americas (25,000 years), refused to accept the dates. And when Virginia Steen-McIntyre refused to accept their denial, she was subjected to the kind of pressures that Bahn lists above, ending a promising career. I myself have had some personal experience of these things. When working with producer Bill Cote on the NBC television special The Mysterious Origins of Man, I found we were blocked from seeing the anomalous artifacts from the California gold mines, which were being kept out of sight in the storage rooms of a museum controlled by the University of California at Berkeley. We also found that orthodox scientists, led by UC Berkeley paleontologist Jere Lipps, engaged in an organized effort to stop NBC from broadcasting the program. When that failed, another paleontologist, Allison R. Palmer of the Institute for Cambrian Studies, tried to get the Federal Communications Commission to punish NBC for having shown this program, which directly contradicted the sacrosanct Darwinian account of human origins.
Līdzīgi kā zinātniskā sabiedrība ostrakēja vienu no DNA atklājējiem Vatsonu par viņa politiski nekorektajiem izteikumiem. Who cares about facts, when there's agenda to follow.
