The Patrick Matthew Violin: An incredible story of great irony

 As an academic, it's not really my job or duty  to ensure that bone headed empirical data evidenced fact deniers stop fact denying what has been newly unearthed about Darwin's lies and plagiary. My duty was to find out a truthful fact led explanation for the otherwise miraculous dual virgin brained replications of Matthew's prior published theory and story that nobody read Matthew's 1831 theory before 1858 and 1859 when Darwin and Wallace replicated it. I did that. The facts prove Darwin a serial lying plagiarist. Wallace also. The facts, they pretend don't exist by failing to acknowledge them in ludicrously fake book reviews and corrupt articles,  prove that Darwin adoration superfans are currently writing fake reviews. Cole is just one culprit of such disgraceful unscientific behaviour. Does he magically think he is going to get away with that complete dishonest nonsense? I would not want such behaviour to be my legacy for all eternity. But now it is his (here)

 Maybe getting the facts into art where art now informs science that it needs to be less artistic and more scientific is the way forward?

We have some songs and poems to accompany the Patrick Matthew Violin (here). I'm hoping others in the arts and in science and history will become interested in this most ironic way forward. On the 4th of July this year the violin and its story is part of a "Violins with Stories" event held in Sherwood, Nottinghamshire.  

Mike Sutton March 2025

What are academics supposed to do about lies, bullshit and about truth?

 Our universities have been taken over by bullshit. HERE

Academics are supposed to have a duty to pursue the beauty of truth and expose the ugliness of lies.

It matters not how beautiful the the theory is that Darwin and Wallace had independent conceptions of Patrick Matthew's prior published theory, It matters not how convenient the newly created tale that Darwin and Matthew, Wallace and "Royal Society Darwin Medal" winners Ernst Mayer and Sir Gavin de Beer were wrong to write that Matthew's theory is essentially the same as that replicated by Darwin and Wallace. If the theory and the tale and don't fit the data then they are wrong. And they most certainly don't fit the empirical independently verifiable new found data (Sutton 2022). 

Today our universities prefer mere blind belief in the romance and the lies over the truth. Why? Because they have adopted the practices of business, and one of the first essential rules of a successful business is to lie (here) and tell stories to sell products to make profits and to make money making transactional deals.