Darwin, Wallace and the Role of the Murderous, Corrupt East India Company in the World's Biggest Science Fraud by Lies and Plagiary

 My Book Science Fraud: Darwin's Plagiary of Patrick Matthew's Theory shows just some of the now known connections between employees of the notoriously corrupt and murderous East India Company and the world's biggest science fraud.

John Lindley, (archive of page on Lindley) by way of just example was closely connected to William Hooker and Hooker's son Joseph Hooker./ Both were Darwin's friends and botanical mentors.  Hooker, Joseph, was Darwin's best friend. William Hooker, who lived and worked with his bachelor son Joseph, was in the pay of the East India Company - as were many connected to this disgraceful episode in the history of science and the cover up of Matthew's right to be acknowledged as the originator of the theory Darwin and Wallace stole.

My blog on the Lindsay's active deliberate  role in thwarting Matthew's botanical fame as the first to import and propagate giant redwoods in the UK can be read here (archived here). Lindley and his social network crops up again and again in the story of Matthew and Darwin - as does the so called "Honourable" East India Company. 

I have just ordered a biography of Lindley. More to follow once I have read it.

Dr A. Wilson on "Matthew Denial"

Dr A. Wilson on the hot historical, social and natural science topic of "Matthew Denial": https://t.co/KXlWT18rDo pic.twitter.com/tIcsNcDdgi

— Dr Mike Sutton (@Criminotweet) July 14, 2016

Among many, here is just one possible reason for Matthew Denial Behaviour in the 19th century

Another possible reason for the "Matthew Denial" behaviour in the 19th century : https://t.co/q7tjnoGCLV pic.twitter.com/JtTsVHR500

— Dr Mike Sutton (@Dysology) July 14, 2016

1831 was as much a politically and socially unsettled year in the USA, as it was in Britain. In 1831 Nat Turner led a violent and bloody slave rebellion in the USA. In Britain, Nottingham castle was burned to the ground during the violent Reform Riots. 

Unlike in Britain, slavery in the USA appeared to be nowhere near abolition. The British Slavery Abolition Act outlawed slavery throughout most of the British Empire, except for territories controlled by the Hooker's paymaster, the rapacious East India Company, which continued with the abhorrent practice until as late as 1843.

Darwin's pals Joseph and William Hooker - and their pal John Lindley (who, it is newly discovered, cheated Matthew by fallaciously claiming another was first to import Giant redwoods into Britain), another employee of the East India Company -  had many reasons to suppress the facts about Matthew's discovery. Their vested interests in slavery could well be one of them. The same goes for Darwin's pal David Anstead, who rubbished Matthew in 1860, because Anstead too was employed by the loathsome and murderous East India Company as lecturer at its Military Seminary at Addiscombe, as well as Kings College London.