Book List for "The Golden Age, Psychopathy and the Sixth Extinction"

[RyanX]

This is for Laura's feature article in DCM issue 13

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/227222-The-Golden-Age-Psychopathy-and-the-Sixth-Extinction

Here is the main list, I think. Obviously there are other sources and papers mentioned in the article itself, but this appears to be the main books of interest. Many of these are already on the other recommended book lists. Let me know if I've missed any.

History: Fiction or Science - Anatoly Fomenko
Secret History of the World and How to Get Out Alive - Laura Knight-Jadczyk
Sacrificing Truth: Archaeology and the Myth of Masada - Nachman Ben-Yehuda
The Bone Peddlers: Selling Evolution - William R. Fix
The Prehistory of the Mind - Steven Mithen
Right-Wing Authoritarianism - Bob Altemeyer
Shattering the Myth of Darwinism - Richard Milton
The Sixth Extinction - Richard Leakey
The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes - Richard Firestone, et al.
The Neanderthal Legacy - Paul Mellars
Cataclysm!: Compelling Evidence of a Cosmic Catastrophe in 9500 B.C. - Allen & Delair
Planet-X, Comets & Earth Changes - James McCanney
The Origin of the Universe and The Origin of Religion - Fred Hoyle
Without Conscience - Robert Hare
Evil Genes - Barbara Oakley
The Diluvian Impact - Heinrich Koch
Man and Impact in the Americas - E.P. Grondine
Political Ponerology - Andrew Lobaczewski
Saharasia - James DeMeo
Anthropology and Politics: Revolutions in the Sacred Grove - Ernest Gellner
The Corruption of Reality - John F. Schumaker
Women Who Love Psychopaths - Sandra Brown
Caricature of Love - Hervey Cleckley

 

[Laura]

Also:
Mithen's The Prehistory of the Mind
FROM THE ASHES OF ANGELS - The Forbidden Legacy Of A Fallen Race by Andrew Collins
Gateway to Atlantis by Collins
TUTANKHAMUN: THE EXODUS CONSPIRACY - The Truth Behind Archaeology's Greatest Mystery by Collins
Uriel's Machine: Reconstructing the Disaster Behind Human History by Knight & Lomas

Caricature of Love by Cleckley

Artificial Cranial Deformation by Eric J. Dingwell

 

[Seamus]

What I found - or realized - was that it would certainly be a very good idea if the revisionists were well trained in the scientific method, because they most certainly could make their cases tighter without so many careless mistakes or baseless assumptions. But, on the other hand, as for the work of the 'credentialed' scientists, I found it to not be credible at all. Despite the superior methodology, financial backing, institutional and peer support, much of it descends into nonsense when one realizes what is being omitted in order to support the a priori premises on which are built such elaborate, circular cognitive edifices.

Do you have any book recommendations for a reader who would like training in the scientific method?

 

[bngenoh]

Do you have any book recommendations for a reader who would like training in the scientific method?

This (http://www.cosmolearning.com/video-lectures/the-logic-of-science-6707/) is not a book, it is a lecture on the logic of science, but it is very well done and has a lot of references to books and articles, some of them you can get online for free.

 

[mcb]

Do you have any book recommendations for a reader who would like training in the scientific method?

How about http://www.scientificmethod.com? This website is by Norman W. Edmund, founder (retired) of Edmund Scientific. The "Pricing and ordering information" page lists a book (near the end) that might be the kind that you are looking for.

 

[Seamus]

Do you have any book recommendations for a reader who would like training in the scientific method?

This (http://www.cosmolearning.com/video-lectures/the-logic-of-science-6707/) is not a book, it is a lecture on the logic of science, but it is very well done and has a lot of references to books and articles, some of them you can get online for free.

Thanks for the link bngenoh. You're right, there are lots of good references and the lecture is pretty good too.

Do you have any book recommendations for a reader who would like training in the scientific method?

How about http://www.scientificmethod.com? This website is by Norman W. Edmund, founder (retired) of Edmund Scientific. The "Pricing and ordering information" page lists a book (near the end) that might be the kind that you are looking for.

This is a really nice source too! Easy to understand and straightforward. Thanks Megan.

 

[bngenoh]

You are welcome. You know I never got the part about the aim of science being to disprove hypotheses until I came upon this video.

 

[SethianSeth]

You know I never got the part about the aim of science being to disprove hypotheses until I came upon this video.

This is delving further off topic on this thread, i'm afraid, but I just finished watching the video you posted bngenoh. I really got a lot out of it, so I appreciate the resource! I've had to hammer this same thing into my head, which is why videos like this are very helpful.

Aside from his crystal clarity about the history of the scientific method and the ways in which official science is applying it, I thought it was extremely illuminating to hear Mr. Stearns downtalk so strongly the idea of "revolutionary science." I was shocked to hear him suggest that the general populace prefers artificially constructed stability (read: mental slavery), as opposed to the shifting paradigms a 'revolutionary science' approach to research would naturally bring. Seems that official science (or at least this Yale professor) wants us to believe that an open and collective striving toward objective knowledge, and the changes it brings to one's individual perspective, would produce "hysteria" within society.

Also, amazing that his only consolation to his students that their new ideas won't take hold easily in today's scientific climate was to tell them that they would likely live longer than those that dominate the current popular construct. Those in comfy seats now have to DIE OUT before any new ideas can come into play, so keep your heads down kids! Our was I reading that wrong?

This video offered some really invaluable perspective. Thanks again, bngenoh!