Science Heresy

The on-line magazine for alternative views on science

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Quoted in Arago, Eulogy of Galileo (1874)

In recent times the physical sciences have become orthodox, authoritarian, sterile and dysfunctional, much like the mediaeval church. This is the outcome of the rigid institutionalization of science and incestuous peer review. Scientists guard their patch jealously and regard any truly new idea as a threat to the established order. Discovery has given way to territoriality and there is little cross-fertilization between disciplines.

We provide a forum for alternative ideas in science; science "heresy" that is either new or has been ignored or actively suppressed by "orthodox" science.

Latest Edition

January 2012

	Will Shale Gas solve all our Problems? Can Whale Strandings be Prevented? Joseph Priestley and the Modern World

Earlier Editions

November 2011

	Science and Pseudoscience The Trend of Destiny But what does the data say? New Letters Column

September 2011

	The Chief Scientist's Call to Arms Was There a Big Bang? Men Laughing at Tiger Stream

April 2011

	Editorial Ocean Waves Are we too smart for our own good? The future of Robotics

March 2011

	Editorial Alarmists and Deniers A Scientist Looks at Climate Change "The Science" The Models

December 2010

	The Death of Science? Can Environmentalism be Saved from Itself? Mixing the Ocean How Peer Review Fails

November 2010

	What Does Climategate Say About Science? SETI - The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Why is lightning jagged? Is the brain a machine?

October 2010

	Karl Popper and the scientific method. Belief in human induced climate change is a matter of faith. Natural Disasters and the religious impulse. Call for a scientific article on climate change.

September 2010

	Ice ages are a random walk. Convection currents in the Earth's mantle are unstable. Fractals are fictions. Can the future behaviour of a fluid be precisely predicted?

Contact Us

Our readership has been steadily building since we started out in September 2010. Our stats show that we have a growing readership in Denmark, Russia, Germany, India, the UK, Switzerland and New Zealand as well as Australia and the USA and elsewhere. Tell us what you think. We are avoiding the temptation to operate in blog mode because we think it will create too much extra work.

If you have an idea you would like to see published, write it up and send it to us. We welcome contributions of a sceptical, speculative or imaginative nature on popular science or the philosophy of science.

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