Plagiarising Science Fraud

Plagiarising Science Fraud
Newly Discovered Facts, Published in Peer Reviewed Science Journals, Mean Charles Darwin is a 100 Per Cent Proven Lying, Plagiarising Science Fraudster by Glory Theft of Patrick Matthew's Prior-Published Conception of the Hypothesis of Macro Evolution by Natural Selection
Showing posts with label Blindsight. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blindsight. Show all posts

Thursday 13 July 2023

The problem of caring too much about a cause you believe in

Onodo Syndrome

When people care a lot for an idea or belief they are at risk of refusing to see the veracity of independently verifiable empirical evidence that proves those ideas or beliefs are totally erroneous. In effect they are blind-sighted to the facts they do not want to accept. This is a condition from which millions of people are suffering today with regard to Charles Darwin's and Alfred Wallace's proven plagiarism of Patrick Matthew's prior published theory of evolution by natural selection, and Darwin's and Wallace's proven lies to cover it up.

By way of analogy, Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda, refused to accept the evidence that WW2 was over and continued guerrilla operations until 1974. But he was not the last. Another Japanese soldier surrendered even later! See a useful article on this evidence blind-sight story here.

In time, committed Darwin fans will also finally surrender their erroneous desperate bias indoctrinated  beliefs about his honesty and originality, These blind beliefs collapse in the face of  superior dis-confirming facts that prove the whole Darwin edifice is another propaganda and profiteering business propped up Victorian science myth.



Wednesday 3 February 2016

The Blindsight Paradox: Dare you click to see?


The Blndsight Paradox

Blindsight protects individuals from the dangers of unbearable truth! But it is also, paradoxically, what we must look out for as a society. That is, if we wish to avoid the worst mass atrocities supported by "the majority view" (see Cohen 2001) .


Invoking Godwin's Law
After this photograph was taken, Nazi Germany went on to put this German man into a concentration camp. Then they killed him by conscripting him into a penal battalion of their army - made up of prisoners He died in the fighting in the Ukraine. They killed his wife in a concentration camp. They fostered out two of his children But it was all done in the name of "the majority view". 
The man is August Landmesser. In his day he was a "crank". Today he is our hero as: "The Man Who Refused to Give the Nazi Salute".

SUCCESSFUL PUNTERIZATION 

Alexander Fleming chain-smoked himself to an early death aged just 56

Einstein was successfully punterized to believe
 in the "majority view" propounded by the tobacco industry


Like so many, Charles Darwin was successfully punterized by the tobacco industry's creation of the "majority view" of its benefits and smoked himself undoubtedly into an earlier grave than necessary aged 73. But, by way of contrast, the original thinking "crank" Patrick Matthew, who lived to be 84,  wrote against the stupidity of the smoking habit in in 1839, which was the year after Darwin supposedly completed his first private unpublished notebook on the topic of natural selection. The full hypothesis of macroevolution by natural selection was originally prior-published by Matthew in 1831.
 Despite all the obvious and significant evidence to the contrary, the majority view currently remains that Darwin independently discovered Matthew's original prior-published concept. In my considered opinion, today, in light of the facts, this particular "majority view" is just as silly as calling non-smokers "fresh air fiends" and non-Nazis cranks.

Dare you look at and see the "real facts"? 

Warning: Seeing and then acting upon the "real facts" on any issue against the blindsighted "majority view" can be mentally and physically overwhelming for some individuals. Consequently, I wonder: did we humans evolve blindsight, by natural selection, to stay sane, to avoid being murdered by the majority, to stay eligible in the breeding stakes? 

Think! Does it pay you not to "salute" the majority view?

If you can so dare, then see if you can, for the first time, see the dreadful, obvious and significant facts that may help you to overcome the successful punterizing power of the mighty Darwin Worship Industry to blindsight the minds of scientists, and the wider general public, to the veracious history of discovery of the unifying theory of biology, Namely, the theory of macroevolution by natural selection. Click to "see".

Friday 22 January 2016

States of Denial of the Obvious and Significant Facts: Several things the Darwin Fraud case Shares with the Savile and Boston Globe Catholic Priest Pedophile Cases


What does the case of Sir Jimmy Savile (OBE)  have in common with that of Rolf Harris (CBE) and Charles Darwin (FRS)?


Stanley Cohen's (2001) 'States of Denial: Knowing about atrocities and suffering' explains how people deny the significance of sufficient evidence that something is happening or happened in the past. Cohen explains how people do this with regard to a range of things such as marital infidelity, alcoholism, terminal illness, child abuse and genocide.

'One common thread runs through the many different stories of denial: people, organizations, governments or whole societies are presented with information that is too disturbing, threatening or anomalous to be fully absorbed or openly acknowledged. The information is therefore somehow repressed, disavowed, pushed aside or reinterpreted. Or else the information 'registers' well enough, but its implications - cognitive, emotional or moral - are evaded, neutralized or rationalized away.'

Stanley Cohen (2001) States of Denial: Knowing about atrocities and suffering. p. 1.



 States of denial

Cohen (2001) explains that states of denial of the obvious and significant - yet unbearable - facts can take many forms:

  • Disingenuous ‘canny unresponsiveness’
  • ‘Psychotic negation of the obvious facts’
  • ‘Lying to convince their listeners and reinforce their own denial of the real facts’
  • ‘Negation by wishful thinking’
  • ‘Evasive reassurance that the facts are not that serious’
  • ‘Victim blaming’ – blaming the victim for their predicament.
  • ‘Withdrawal of attention – deflecting the gaze’
  • ‘Compartmentalization’.

Unsurprisingly, there are several shared features underlying the 'state of denial' in the Savile case, the Boston Globe's  Catholic priests paedophile case and the Darwin fraud case :

  1. Sir Jimmy Savile OBE was a much loved and wealthy TV celebrity, raised a fortune for charities.He was considered 'broadcasting royalty' by the BBC and as a highly respected, knighted and decorated, 'pillar of society' by everyone else. The BBC held his talent in awe and treated him deferentially.
  2. Charles Darwin (FRS), was considered in the 19th-century (being the grandson of the famous polymath and poet Erasmus Darwin FRS), as 'academic royalty' by the Royal Society. After his reports whilst on the HMS Beagle were read with enthusiasm by naturalists, his knowledge was held in awe and the very name "Darwin" was once again treated deferentially. Awarded the Royal Medal, Copley Medal and Wollaston Medal, he was considered a paragon of wealthy gentleman naturalist honesty and originality by everyone else. Harris was awarded the CBE and once spent considerable time with the Queen of England as he famously painted her portrait.
  3. Catholic priests, in 20th century USA, and their wealthy church, were considered by many as being at the very top of the social hierarchy of honesty and caring integrity.
  4. Both Savile and Harris were immensely popular and highly successful A-List 'celebrity' children's entertainers. Darwin was a celebrity A-list scientist. All three completely transgressed the boundaries of social and professional norms within the particular field in which they were held in such high regard. All Roman Catholic priests were entrusted by society to uphold the 'child protection' values of the Christian prophet Jesus of Nazareth. The 'real facts' of the the behaviour of paedophile priests, Savile's, Harris's and Darwin's behaviour is, therefore, anathema.
  5. In what we might name the "Rifkin Imperative by Proxy": Savile boasted about being able to avoid trouble, and in describing his ability to do so gleefully described himself many times as being "tricky". Darwin gleefully described himself many times as being a "wriggler" to do the same. Harris - less obviously - may have been leaving similarly smug and self-delightful obscure clues to his predilections in his music. For example, in  hindsight his hit song "I want my mummy" is most disturbing. More research is needed, but I dare to hypothesise that we might call this song that celebrates and weirdly mocks and delights at the massive trauma felt by a poor lost child a case of the "Rifikin Imperative by Proxy".

But eventually someone is able to break the negative hallucination (not seeing what is obviously and significantly there) to convince the world of the facts that "The king has no clothes!" It takes time to get through the stonewalling of protective 'establishment' interests and public adoration - but the facts pound like a battering ram against their denials, canny indifference and blindsight. Eventually, the wall caves-in and facts then rush through. And after the breech is made, the public wants to know why it took so long. Who, they demand, is to blame?

This link will take you to the independently verifiable 'New Data'. This data proves that, for the past 155 years to the present time of writing, the same psychological 'state of denial' characteristics of the "majority view" are behind the failure to respond to the obvious and significant facts of Darwin's lying, plagiarizing, science fraud by glory theft of Patrick Matthew's prior-published conception of natural selection.

An explanation - with independently verifiable evidence - of how the psychological concept of 'denial' relates to how Darwin scholars have been in denial of the facts of Darwin's lies, told to conceal the wider facts pertinent to Darwin's (1858 and 1859) replication of Matthew's (1831) prior-published conception of natural selection, and more, can be read on the Patrick Matthew Website PatrickMatthew.com - specifically the States of Denial page.

Conclusion
Darwin scholars currently are in a state of denial of the obvious and significant fact that the publication record of what he knew and what he then wrote proves Charles Darwin was a self-serving liar about the prior readership of Matthew's ideas. Darwin lied about the prior readership of Matthew's original ideas, which he replicated without citing (Sutton 2105   ). Any Darwinist claiming there is an innocent interpretation for this behaviour - namely, that their namesake's published falsehoods were not meant to be taken literally - is offering an incongruous explanation, given the fact that for 155 years the literal interpretation of Darwin's claims by the world's leading Darwinists (here) is the basis of the 'majority view' paradigm that a steadfastly honest Darwin independently discovered Matthew's prior-published ideas.

Being in a state of denial of these facts is analogous, in my considered opinion, to denying that Sir Jimmy Savile deliberately forced his tongue into a child's mouth   . Moreover, it is analogous to cooking up a 'state of denial' defence scenario where Savile simply miss-kissed.
Anyone claiming that Charles Darwin was not a liar, in the teeth of the facts that he was, is surely in a state of denial of the unpalatable halitosis of Darwin's lies. On 1st February 2016, I left a comment to that effect on Dr Mike Weale's Patrick Matthew Project website (here   ).

Being in a state of denial of these particular facts is analogous, in my considered opinion, to denying that Sir Jimmy Savile deliberately forced his tongue into a child's mouth by claiming instead that it happened in good faith, despite the obvious deviance, dishonest and sexual gratification of the act. It is analogous to cooking up a dual 'state of denial' defence scenario where Savile simply miskissed, and where Darwin wrote falsehoods in good faith despite the deviance of his actions, dishonesty and resulting status as an immortal great orignal thinker and influencer in science.
Darwin scholars really ought to snap out of their 'state of denial' of the facts and deal with them like real - not pseudo - scholars. The facts can't be denied away. Nor should we try. Because it seems reasonable to hypothesise that societies that tolerate and fail to recognise any states of denial may be more likely to provide enabling environments for the worst atrocities committed by human beings.
There is, however a paradox. Denial may initially protect the individual, yet simultaneously contribute to their greatest future threat. This is the "Blindsight Paradox   ", identified by Stanley Cohen in 2001.


I wrote a blog on the blindsight phenomenon here.

You can find links to more blog posts etc on 'states of denial' on the relevant page of PatrickMatthew.com

Feel free to use the infomatic below in any way and anywhere you see fit:






This Prezi-show reveals the obvious and significant evidence 
that 100 per cent proves Darwin committed lying, plagiarising science fraud 
by glory theft of Matthew's prior-published conception of macro-evolution by natural selection

Wednesday 6 January 2016

Appendix Myth: The blindsight explanation for this and other myths about Patrick Matthew's (1831) prior-publication of the complete hypothesis of natural slection

Foreword


One of the most intriguing questions on the story of Matthew, Darwin and Wallace and the discovery of the theory of natural selection was asked by my daughter. She is just 6 years old. Eleena asked me the other day:

 “Why did you discover that Darwin told lies Daddy? Why not someone else years ago?” 

I told her that I had discovered a novel way to find hidden books that showed the truth about who really did read Matthew's book - who Darwin and Wallace knew - before Darwin and Wallace published a word on the topic. I told her it worked like a magic wand - only without any magic.

On the issue of Darwin's lies that were discoverable at the time he wrote them, however, my clever daughter got me thinking about this most obviously significant question about how it was that for 155 years Darwin scholars could have possibly missed so  many obvious and significant facts that they read – literally right under their very noses, which dis-confirm their paradigm that Darwin and Wallace conceived the theory of natural selection independently of Matthew. Surely, Darwin scholars are/were not all dreadful liars themselves for denying the real facts?  I mentioned this conundrum to a sociologist college - Dr Andrew Wilson. Andy had been a graduate student of the late Stanley Cohen and suggested a book for me to read entitled ‘States of Denial’ (Cohen 2001). 

Professor Cohen was most concerned about ‘states of denial’ at the individual, micro and macro-cultural level that led to and facilitated the Holocaust in Germany, and states of denial that allow torture to take place today etc. Cohen’s work made me aware of the neuro-psychological phenomena of ‘blindsight’ – which is  experiencing a negative hallucination – genuinely not seeing and perceiving the significance of what is plainly there and plainly significant. This is something the brain does to protect us from dreadfully disturbing information. Eureka! I cried gratefully on reading Cohen's words. They explained completely, with reference to psychological research, a mysterious phenomenon I uncovered earlier in this story, which I then called 'Loudon Naturalist Blindness'.

The Blindsight Explanation for Poor Scholarship 


For the past 155 years, Darwin scholars have simply parroted Darwin’s (1860 and 1861) 'Appendix Myth', 'Scattered Passages Myth' and 'Mere Enunciation Myth',in order to fill in the knowledge gaps as to what really happened to Patrick Matthew’s original ideas on natural selection between their publication in 1831 and Wallace’s, (1855), Darwin’s and Wallace’s (1858) and Darwin’s (1859) replications without citing Matthew. These myths served  as plausible devices to enable the world to accept Darwin’s fallacious tale that Matthew’s ideas went unread by natural scientists until Matthew drew Darwin’s attention to them in 1860 , Hence the three myths above braced Darwin's: 'No Naturalists Read Matthew's Original Ideas Before 1860 Myth' and 'No Single Person Read His Original Ideas Before 1860 Myth', The credulous use of these myths by 'expert' Darwin scholars to criticise the scholarship of those who have in the past questioned Darwin's right to be celebrated as an original and immortal great thinker for what he has written on the theory of natural selection, has made Darwin's two Matthew was unread until 1860 variant fallacies into the worst kind of entrenched fallacy. Namely, they are braced-supermyths. 

What everyone somehow missed, is that the fact was right under their noses, in the print they all read closely, the indisputable plain and highly significant fact that Darwin knew of at least two naturalists who had read Matthew's original ideas on natural selection because Matthew had told him so in print in 1860  (Sutton 2014).  Moreover, my research went even further to originally uncover, using an apparently unique hi-tech BigData analysis method in Google's Library Project, the fact  that a total of seven naturalists, four known to Darwin/Wallace, three of whom played major roles influencing and facilitating the work of Darwin/Wallace on macroevolution,  not only read Matthew's (1831) original ideas before 1858 - but also cited the book containing them before that famous year when Darwin and Wallace had their papers read before the Linnean Society. 

In reality - as the proven serial liar Darwin knew, because he informed Hooker that he knew, Matthew's ideas were contained throughout the main body of his book as well as in its appendix. I demonstrated this fact in a recent blog post, with reference to Matthew referring his readers, on several pages in the introduction chapter in his book On Naval Timber and Arboriculture (Matthew 1831)  to that book's appendix. Matthew did this very clearly so they could  tie in his observations on natural selection in nature with the socially damaging artificial selection of human stock that happened in human culture. And yet Darwin scholars for over a century and a half failed to register this fact and its significance on reading Matthew's book. Why? The question is hugely important because failure to see this fact has led to the myth, blindly parroted throughout the literature, that Matthew is to be blamed for the World's failure to acknowledge  his discovery, because he supposedly buried his original ideas on natural selection in the book's appendix (e.g. Dawkins in Bryson 2010; Bowler 2014) where they supposedly remained unread by any naturalists until 1860. Incidentally, my book, Nullius in Verba, has an appendix that contains every word on natural selection from the main body of Matthew's (1831) book and includes its famous appendix.

But that is not the all of it. Other plain facts and their obvious significance, right under the very noses of Darwin scholars, who read them these past 155 years, were peculiarly missed until my 2014 research. I revealed this in my peer reviewed article on the topic of Darwin's and Wallace's  plagiarising science fraud Sutton (2014), where I wrote the following:


'What makes Darwin’s (1861) falsehood all the more audacious is the fact that he knew also that Matthew’s ideas were not merely contained in an appendix, nor briefly scattered. Because Matthew (1860) published large passages of text, cited as coming from his book - a great deal of which came from the main body of the book - in his letter in the Gardener’s Chronicle. And Darwin knew that because he purchased a copy of Matthew’s book, read it before replying to Matthew’ letter, and wrote as much about those same passages, although somewhat cryptically, to Joseph Hooker (Darwin 1860b):


 The case in G. Chronicle seems a little stronger than in Mr. Matthews [sic] book, for the passages are therein scattered in 3 places. But it would be mere hair-splitting to notice that.'



How then might we seek to understand why the scientific community, historians of science and the world's leading, award winning,  'experts' on the topic of the history of discovery of natural selection - including household names such as Richard Dawkins - all failed at one time or another over the past 155 years to see the plain fact of the matter that Darwin lied about Matthew's ideas being solely 'buried' in an appendix, which started one of many myths about Matthew's book in 1860?

How do obvious and significant, but deeply disturbing, facts hide in plain sight?

I think that the sociologist Stanley Cohen's (2001) superb book 'States of Denial' provides us with
Professor Stanley Cohen
 23 February 1942 – 7 January 2013
plausible explanations for this phenomenon of macro-denial of the facts, and what should be seen as their great and obvious significance, that have been in the published literature - literally right under the noses of Darwin scholars as they have read them - for all these years. 

Hiding in blindsight 

On pages 42 and 43 of  his book 'States of Denial', Cohen writes about the cognitive and neuro-psychological concept of blind-sightedness. This is a denial-like phenomena with several contexts. Within the various explanations Cohen explores for the general phenomenon, one explanation is that of the 'negative hallucination'. 

We all know that it is possible for human beings to see things that are not there - we call these hallucinations. Negative hallucinations, however, involve not seeing things that are there. On this topic, Cohen (2001, p. 43) writes:

'Blindsight' suggests a starling possibility about the mind: that one part may know just what it is doing, while the part that supposedly knows - that is awareness - remains oblivious. In this sense, blindsight - also found in 'normal people' - is analogous to everyday denial. The mind can know without being aware of what is known.'

The right to an explanation

Why would the intelligent self-aware academic community of Darwin scholars experience something like 'blindsight' when reading independently verifiable hard evidence that disproves the internationally accepted 'knowledge belief' of Darwin's authenticity and legendary honesty? Cohen (2001 p. 44) refers us to evidence on this general phenomenon, thereby enabling us to seek to explain it:

'Emotionally charged stimuli are perceived less readily than more neutral stimuli. This protects you from awareness of objects that have unpleasant emotional connotations. Without you knowing, the mind 'activates' your internal filter or sensor, If you were aware of what your mind had seen, but denied this, this would be mere dissembling or lying. But stimuli can arouse autonomic reactions of anxiety or pleasure prior to any conscious awareness.'




The No Naturalist Read Matthew's Original ideas before 1858 Myth: Loudon Naturalist Blindness Explained



Why, for 155 years, did expert naturalists fail to see the fact and its significance that, contrary to Darwin's (1860) lies in the Gardener's Chronicle (countersigned by Hooker) that no naturalists had read Matthew's original ideas on natural selection before 1858, that  John Loudon did?

How did Darwin scholars  not see the significance of the fact that Matthew informed Darwin that another naturalist university professor (unnamed) read his ideas before 1858 and then told Matthew he feared pillory punishment were he to teach Matthew's heresy on the topic of the origin of species?

Furthermore, Matthew also informed Darwin and other readers in that second letter in the Gardener's Chronicle that his book was banned by Perth public library. That is another fact (this one pointed out by Jim Dempster - yet cannily ignored), the significance of which seems to have failed to register with all other Darwin scholars.

 These three 'blindsighted facts' are significant for the following reasons:

  1. Because Loudon was an internationally famous naturalist and botanist.
  2. Because Darwinists, (e.g Dawkins 2010) have victim-blamed Matthew for not trumpeting his great discovery from the rooftops in the first half of the 19th century at a time when  - just as Matthew (1860) explained in the Gardener's Chronicle with the actual facts of the matter - it was deemed heretical and unfit, under the scientific conventions of the time, for discussion by gentlemen of science. If Dawkins, for example, was not blindsighted during his research into this topic, on which he holds so confidently forth as a self assured expert, then the alternative explanation is horrendously incriminating!
  3. The naturalist, Loudon, not only read and cited Matthew's book in 1832, but in that review he wrote - 27 years before Darwin replicated Matthew's discoverer, original ideas, terminology and unique explanatory examples and claimed to have done so independently of Matthew - that Matthew appeared to have something original to say on 'the origin of species', and varieties of species, no less'!





The neuroscience blindsight explanation for the Appendix Myth also explains perfectly Loudon Naturalist Blindness Syndrome. 

Although they have written extensively on the fact that Matthew's 1860 letters to the Gardener's Chronicle were published, and that in those letter Matthew claimed his right to priority for the prior published conception of natural selection, Darwinists and other Darwin scholars all failed, before my original 2014 research in Nullius, to see the fact and its significance that Matthew informed the Chronicle's readers - including Darwin - that the naturalist John Loudon read and cited Matthew's original ideas on 'the origin of species'.

Had any Darwin scholars seen the significance of that fact that Loudon reviewed Matthew's book and that Loudon was an internationally famous naturalist who was part of Darwin's inner network of naturalists, being well known to both William and Joseph Hooker and John Lindley, then they would have known that Loudon was chief editor of the journal that published two of Blyth's (1835, 1836) most influential articles on organic evolution (see Sutton 2014 for the references). This is a highly significant, oversight (blindsight) because Darwin met Blyth before 1848 and and later corresponded with him pre 1858. Moreover, from the third edition of the Origin of Species onward, Darwin wrote  that Blyth was his greatest and most prolific informant on the topic of varieties of species! This represents yet another route of Matthewian knowledge contamination from Matthew -> Loudon -> Blyth -> Darwin or via Loudon directly to Darwin's best friend and botanical mentor Joseph Hooker or to him and then to Darwin via William Hooker. Or else the knowledge about Matthew's ideas may have come directly to Darwin via William Hooker on any of the occasions when they are known to have met at Kew.




Once again, therefore, here we see (so long as we are able to see without the hindrance of blindsight) yet another newly detected route of Matthewian (1831) to Darwin pre-1848 knowledge contamination.

In sum, one explanation for the 155 years old  Darwinist 'knowledge belief', started by Darwin's lies in the Gardener's Chronicle and continued from 1861 onwards in the third and every subsequent edition of the Origin of Species  - that Matthew's original ideas on natural selection went unread until Matthew told Darwin about them - is that the dreadful fact that the great and revered Charles Darwin (FRS) told lies to corrupt the history of discovery of natural selection. Being obvious and dreadfully disturbing  significant lies they were cognitively rendered invisible to readers who revered Darwin. Because Darwin's lies and the many other pertinent facts about the readership of his book, and the fact it was censored in the first half of the 19th century, and all the other obvious and significant facts provided by Matthew are so disturbing, they too were rendered cognitively invisible to Darwin scholars.

Summary of the facts


  • Patrick Matthew's (1831) Book On Naval Timber and Arboriculture was Cannily Ignored, Plagiarised, Cited, Banned, Criticised and its Readership Lied about by Charles Darwin, who, in 1858 and 1859 (and in private essays supposedly written in 1842 and 1844)  Replicated Matthew's Conception of Natural Selection and His Unique Artificial Versus Natural Analogy of Differences, which explain it. 
  • Darwin claimed no naturalist read Matthew's original ideas until Matthew Informed Darwin of them in 1860. He lied, because Matthew had prior-informed Darwin that two naturalist read it and Perth (the Fair City) public library in Scotland banned it.
  • Darwin scholars credulously parrotted Darwin's lies for 155 years.


Conclusion


THE WORLD DESERVES AN EXPLANATION FOR HOW ON EARTH DARWIN SCHOLARS MISSED OBVIOUS AND SIGNIFICANT FACTS THAT DARWIN LIED ABOUT THE READERSHIP OF MATTHEW'S (1831) BOOK AND THAT THE BOOK - AND THE ORIGINAL IDEAS IN IT ON NATURAL SELECTION - WERE BOTH READ AND CITED BY NATURALISTS KNOWN TO DARWIN AND WALLACE AND THAT IT WAS CENSORED IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 19th-CENTURY.

I think that  Cohen's (2001)  scholarship on 'States of Denial' provides considerable and valuable information about how the scholarly atrocity of Darwinist multiple-myth spreading, to corrupt the history of the discovery of natural selection, happened.

As a sociologist and criminologist it is my creed to understand rather than condemn. Perhaps cognitive and neuro psychologists have given us an explanation for the dysological myth-spreading behaviour of scholars such as the Royal Society Darwin Medal winners Sir Gavin de Beer and Ernst Mayr, of Richard Dawkins, and so many others too numerous to list?

What then of the behaviour of Charles Darwin? Does 'blindsight' explain why he told six lies in order to achieve priority over Patrick Matthew for Matthew's prior-published discovery of natural selection? You decide dear reader. But in order to do so you will need to ensure you look at, and are actually able to see right under your nose, the newly discovered and independently verifiable, significant, facts. Those new facts are all in my book ' Nullius in Verba: Darwin's greatest secret' - the book many Darwinists, I rather suspect, wish could be buried in the same oblivion where the vast majority of Darwin scholars have worked tirelessly to ensure Matthew's bombshell book resided these past 155 years.
 Nullius in Verba: THe book that re wrote the history of the discovery of natural slection

Most importantly, it is important to emphasise that I think it would be naive for us to attribute the failure of all Darwin scholars to engage with the facts about who did read Matthew's book to blindsight.

Cohen (2001) provides us with additional explanations, beyond such negative hallucinations as 'blindsight'.  We are empowered by Cohen's superb scholarship on the topic of 'states of denial' to seek to examine why Darwin scholars are - and have been for 155 years - in a state of denial over so many dis-confirming facts for the paradigm of Darwin's and Wallace's independent conceptions of Matthew's prior published theory. They may, for example, be engaging in any of the following:

  1.  Disingenuous 'canny unresponsiveness'. 
  2.  'Psychotic negation of the obvious facts'.
  3.  'Lying to convince their listeners and reinforce their own denial of the real facts'.
  4.  'Negation by wishful thinking'.
  5.  'Evasive reassurance that the facts are not that serious'.
  6.  'Victim blaming' - blaming the victim for their predicament.
  7.  'Withdrawal of attention - deflecting the gaze'. 
  8.  'Compartmentalization'.
NOTE: If you found these ideas thought provoking you may wish to read an earlier blog post, which explores the telling question: 'Are Darwinists in a synchronised state of denial?'

You can view a Prezi presentation on Darwin's lying, plagiarising science fraud by glory theft - here