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Saturday, 9 May 2020
Did T Horton James read On Naval Timber?
Here is an article citing Matthew's Emigration fields and Matthew as the author of "On Naval Timber". It is reproduced in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine in 1839 (Here).
There is no evidence the author read On Naval Timber. But it is further evidence of the extent to which Matthew's book was cited in popular literature long before Darwin and Wallace plagiarised it.
Thomas Horton James was a merchant and traveller: See: https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A137272
Thursday, 7 May 2020
Terraforming: and Patrick Matthew
Veracity v Myth and Matthew V Darwin in the invention of terraforming
In reality it is Patrick Matthew, the plagiarized and cheated 1831 originator of the theory of natural selection, whose research and observations of nature provided the factual and theoretical base for terraforming.
When, in 1831, Matthew published his theory in his book On Naval Timber and Arboriculture, it contained, amongst other religious heresy at the time, the heresy that trees could grow better in other than their "natural" habitats when transplanted there by humans. This heresy was heretical because it went against then Christian doctrine that "God", as designer and creator, placed every living thing in its ideal location. Matthew's heresy probably just one of those that led his book to banned by Perth public Library in Scotland and for reviewers to demand readers not even think about his ruminations on the laws of nature. Indeed, Selby (a regular church-going Christian naturalist, who I, in 2014, 2014a, 2015 see my later 2016 paperback uniquely discovered cited Matthew's book in 1842 and wrote that he could not understand this idea before going on to be chief editor of the journal that published Wallace's 1855 Sarawak paper. NOTE: My Selby discovery was later plagiarized in the Linnean Journal by Dagg The Jealous and Sly Plagiarist - facts here).
In 1843, a year after Selby (1842) noted what Matthew had written abut some trees doing well outside their natural habitat, Joseph Hooker landed on Ascension Island (see here and here) and arranged for an abundance of different species of tree to be planted there.
Selby wrote that he could not understand how it could be so that Matthew said trees could do better when grown outside their natural habitat. See Prideaux John Selby, A History of British Forest-Trees: Indigenous and Introduced, Van Voorst, London 1842. In this way, whether he really could understand it (but pretended otherwise to appease the powerful church) or not, Selby drew attention to Matthew's heresy. Later it was picked up upon as no more than an important fact for economic botany and cited prominently by William Hooker's (William being Joseph Hooker's father and also a friend of the Darwin and his wife) correspondent William Jameson in 1853 (facts here).
The United Service Journal and Naval and Military Magazine published an extended review in the 1831 Part II and 1831 Part III numbers of the magazine:
"But we disclaim participation in his ruminations on the law of Nature, or on the outrages committed upon reason and justice by our burthens of hereditary nobility, entailed property, and insane enactments."
Darwin and his cronies capitalized upon the opportunistic fact Matthew had been earlier silenced in the first half of the 19th century when the church was still in its ascendancy to steal his ideas. Indeed, while Matthew mocked the church and priests, in many editions of the Origin of Species Darwin kept the notion of "The Creator" in as a supernatural deity that created evolution by natural selection.
Tuesday, 5 May 2020
Patrick Matthew's Book donated by J Strang - 1848 Mechanics Institute Library
Monday, 4 May 2020
Masks and the Matthew Awards
Ever wondered how @realDonaldTrump got elected?
— Adrian Littlejohn (@yorksfella59) May 4, 2020
Puzzle no more... https://t.co/t5PzzwrdYI
Tower of Babel Moment on the Internet?
In the entire history of human technology, is it true we have never thwarted related scientific progress? What about when #RankBrain AI thwarted functionality on Google's Library? Were we getting to know too much? Too close?— Dr Mike Sutton (@Criminotweet) May 4, 2020
Is it a #TowerOfBabel analogy? https://t.co/Nli3gCzRvO pic.twitter.com/Tm2tmZRCwX
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And is it better, or worse, that it was (presumably) driven by a mindless and valueless (by which I mean 'without values' rather than worthless) commercial imperative rather than a philosophical or ideological position? Tragic, either way.
— Andy Sutton (@faceblindandy) May 4, 2020
Thursday, 30 April 2020
World's Greatest Irony: The Patrick Matthew Awards
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According to an email I received from an academic today, #China is making it difficult for researchers there to examine the evidence that the landed gentry #Toff Charles Darwin plagiarized the theory of a Chartist leader Scottish botanist: pic.twitter.com/jt2QSyghtC
— Dr Mike Sutton (@Criminotweet) April 30, 2020
Tuesday, 28 April 2020
Patrick Matthew, Mike Sutton and Wikipedia Fraud and Falsehoods
Moreover, Dagg the Plagiarist wrongly claims (because he makes a habit of being either dishonest, maliciously fraudulent or plain wrong throughout his Darwin deification work) that I made a mistake in discovering a Matthewism later used by Selby. Dagg, credulously cited on this particular falsehood in Wikipedia by his co-nutter, lazy academic failure and obsessive and delusional Wikipedia editor, Derry, wrongly co-claims Selby did not even use the term "greater power of occupancy". In reality, the total 100% proven and independently verifiable fact is that I originally found Selby was apparently first to be second with it in published print. The image below is of my List 2 published in my 500 page e-book (Sutton 2014) Nullius in Verba: Darwin's greatest secret.
Ultimately, fact denial fake news about scientific and other discoveries of the kind published by gleefully imbecilic Wikipedia editors will cost lives. If you think that is an exaggeration then please read my blog post on the Crime Talk site: Here
Saturday, 25 April 2020
Bullshit in Science and the History of Science Kills People
We are all in is a massive Pandemic of Bulls#it
— Dr Mike Sutton (@Criminotweet) April 25, 2020
Are university #managerialists & idiot scientists ultimately killing more people than #Covid19?
On the Crime Talk site, I argue why I think the answer is yes, they are! @DrMarkGriffiths @EdzardErnst https://t.co/uPXibahT7C pic.twitter.com/LD7ZkManf8
The Matthew Awards 2020
Solidarity with the brilliant @DrJessTaylor, who is being subjected to horrendous abuse by men committed to misogyny at all costs. This only shows the importance of her work, which these men could learn so much from were they to actually engage with it... https://t.co/RcBMWrASHT
— Stephen Burrell (@the_daily_panda) April 24, 2020
Saturday, 18 April 2020
The Matthew Awards
.Got 11 videos sent to me of screws dancing outside prisons! All videod in last 6 days in which time 13 deaths in custody and 218 confirmed cases and counting. Ill put them all up later for your pleasure guys #prisonerspeopletoo pic.twitter.com/EXRWgiao4V
— Anon Inmate (@anon42680381) April 18, 2020
No masks. No social distancing. If genuine, here we would see an example of Patrick Mathew's (1831) "Natural process of selection" in action during a pandemic. #TheMatthewAwards https://t.co/I8BK3UCf8x
— Dr Mike Sutton (@Dysology) April 18, 2020