“Crackpots” Who Were Right

“Crackpots” Who Were Right (by Philip E. Gibbs): Abstract: I’m going to run a series of posts at http://blog.vixra.org under the heading: “crackpots” who were right. It is surprising just how many times people have published ideas in science that were initially rejected by their peers simply because they went against the accepted wisdom of the time. These people submitted their work to journals only to have them repeatedly rejected with comments from the referees stating that the author simply could not be right. In all the cases I will mention, the idea has eventually been accepted, sometimes after many years and often only when another more influential scientist rediscovered it. Happily the original discoverers were not forgotten and are now recognised, but it is not just the matter of recognition that is of concern. The failure to evaluate the work correctly at the time has lead to delays in the progress of science that can last for decades. http://prespacetime.com/index.php/pst/article/view/22

“Crackpots” Who Were Right II (by Philip E. Gibbs): Abstract: This is the second instalment of the series entitled “crackpots” who were right. It is a collection of my postings at http://blog.vixra.org . The cases described so far are just the tip of the iceberg. These are the scientists whose work eventually led to a paradigm shift in their discipline and in several cases the work was recognised with a Nobel Prize, though not always for the scientists who made the initial breakthrough. For every scientists who makes such a major advance in science there are many others who take smaller steps. Undoubtedly there must be many other independent scientists whose work was so completely rejected and ignored that it never garnered any recognition and has long been forgotten. Science suffers through such neglect and that is why we think viXra.org is so important. http://prespacetime.com/index.php/pst/article/view/40

“Crackpots” Who Were Right III (by Philip E. Gibbs): Abstract: This is the third instalment of the series entitled “crackpots” who were right. It is a collection of my postings at http://blog.vixra.org. The scientists covered are Stanley Prusiner, Georg Ohm, Robbert Goddard, Carl Woese, Galileo Galilei, Barbara McClintock and J Harlen Bretz. These are the scientists whose work eventually led to a paradigm shift in their discipline and in several cases the work was recognised with a Nobel Prize, though not always for the scientists who made the initial breakthrough. For every scientists who makes such a major advance in science there are many others who take smaller steps. Undoubtedly there must be many other independent scientists whose work was so completely rejected and ignored that it never garnered any recognition and has long been forgotten. Science suffers through such neglect and that is why we think viXra.org is so important. http://prespacetime.com/index.php/pst/article/view/63

“Crackpots” Who Were Right IV: Conclusion (by Philip E. Gibbs): Abstract: This is the fourth and last instalment of the series entitled “crackpots” who were right. It is a collection of my postings at http://blog.vixra.org. The scientists covered in this series are the scientists whose work eventually led to a paradigm shift in their discipline and in several cases the work was recognised with a Nobel Prize, though not always for the scientists who made the initial breakthrough. For every scientist who makes such a major advance in science there are many others who take smaller steps. Undoubtedly there must be many other independent scientists whose work was so completely rejected and ignored that it never garnered any recognition and has long been forgotten. Science suffers through such neglect and that is why we think viXra.org is so important. http://prespacetime.com/index.php/pst/article/view/87