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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If you wish to submit a complete article, writers' guidelines are available on request. We reserve the right to edit or reject your article as we see fit but if it is well written (in English), not about religion and fits our format we will publish it even if we don't agree with it. We can't pay you but this may change.