The Patrick Matthew Violin is the Press Association Picture of the Month

 

What counts as empirical data? A humorous heuristic device by way of analogy.

Has anyone experienced a radar storm in the UK in 2024? Has anyone spotted flying pig ice storms raining down from the clouds? Just asking, as I need to check my "smart TV" has not crossed into a slightly different not quite parallel universe. 😅

Empirical photograph evidence of a BBC claim that these occurrences happened, or else a BBC a typo, or a BBC A.I. error or someone at the BBC having a joke evidenced by these photographs of my TV  was broadcast in 2024. 

So, if you have the original publication that's empirical data that it was published in print. Similarly, if it happened in a broadcast and you capture that broadcast and don't alter  it then that's is also empirical data. And if it happened then it is history!

So here, by way of analogy, we can use humour as a heuristic device to mock the Darwin Deification Cult that fact denies what is in historic published print is actually there. They are fact denying our history.

Images of The Patrick Matthew Violin

Today (30 May 2024) I Googled the following three words:  Patrick Matthew Violin

The images below correspond to what comes up on Google images

Read more about and hear The Patrick Matthew Violin being played on the Patrick Matthew Website Patrick Matthew Website

The following images of  the violin named "The Patrick Matthew" are copyrighted to Press Association internationally famous photographer Jane Barlow (The last person to photograph Queen Elizabeth II).

Art Teaching Science to Be More Scientific and Not So Artistic

Top biologist scientists of the 20th century (e.g. Sir Gavin de beer, Ernst Mayer and Richard Dawkins) and naturalists of the 19th century (e.g. Charles  Darwin, Alfred Wallace and Patrick Matthew) all agreed that  in 1831 the Scottish apple hybridisation expert, orchard owner and forester, Patrick Matthew, was first into published print with the full and complete breakthrough theory of evolution by natural selection. Under the rules of priority in science that should have given Matthew full credit over Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace who later went into print with the exact same theory in 1858/1859, claiming to have each arrived at it independently. However, Darwin claimed Matthew’s theory was not read until Matthew published a letter in 1860 to claim priority. Today, with the benefit of BigData we now know Matthew’s book was read and then cited in published print by at least 30 people pre 1858. Several of them were acknowledged influencers of Darwin and Wallace and their influencers. These are independently verifiable empirical data facts of what is in the historical publication record. Just like fossils in the geological record. The problem is that our institutions of science are studiously failing to engage with these facts and are instead holding on to the beloved science myth of the story told by Darwin even though it is proven to be a complete myth. 

The Patrick Matthew violin was commissioned by criminologist Dr Mike Sutton (now a retired academic but  Editor of The Internet Journal of Criminology) author of Science Fraud: Darwin’s Plagiarism of Patrick Matthew’s Theory (Curtis Press 2022).

Master violin maker Steve Burnett of Edinburgh made the violin from a fallen ancient apple tree in the grounds of Megginch Castle in the Carse of Gowrie. The castle neighbours Matthew’s old home (now demolished) and may well have been planted by Matthew as he was great friends with the castle owner. Both their names are engraved on a curling trophy in the Castle. Steve Burnett also made the bass bar of the violin from locally sourced driftwood. 

Sutton commissioned Burnett to make The Patrick Matthew violin because of the makers notable tribute violins to other Scottish heroes. 

Sutton asks us a most exquisite ironic telling question: “Is it not ironic that in what has come to be known as the post truth age that we have come to the point on the eve of the 150th anniversary of the death of Patrick Matthew that it falls to the arts to inform science that science and its history should be based on empirical facts and not made up beloved  stories?”

Read about the Patrick Matthew Violin on the relevant  Patrick Matthew Website page

The Patrick Matthew Violin played by Steve Burnett and Scottish BBC Professional Violinist

 

A violin made by an artist to teach science it should be based on empirical scientific data not beloved made up stories about Charles Darwin being a miracle original and honest genius independent discoverer of Patrick Matthews prior published theory, which we now newly know Darwin's and Wallace's greatest influencers and their influencer's influencers read and cited in the literature before Darwin of Wallace penned a word on the topic.

If you dig deep enough everything has a story

How did Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace supposedly independently and miraculously replicate what Darwin, Wallace, de Beer, Mayer, Dawkins and many other top biologists said was essentially the exact same full theory of evolution by natural selection that Patrick Matthew originated and had published in 1831? And why, in light of the new data that busts Darwin and Wallace's excuse that Matthew's theory was unread before 1860, are the Darwin worshiping Linnean Society and the Royal Society now shamefully publishing desperately silly papers by cyberstalking obscene criminals, workplace harassment criminals and repeat research plagiarists that claim Matthew's theory is now suddenly and yet ever so conveniently to be argued to be significantly different to that published by Darwin and Wallace?

Cloud of Denial

Because in the Cuckoo Land of the the Darwin Industry so many people continue to live in a cloud of denial when it comes to the scientific empirical evidence of Darwin's and Wallace's plagiarism of Patrick Matthew's theory the Patrick Matthew Violin was born to blow those clouds away.

See the story of the violin unfolding on the Patrick Matthew website: https://patrickmatthew.com/the-patrick-matthew-violin.html

The story is covered by the Press Association Here

The Patrick Matthew Violin

The official photo shoot and filming of The Patrick Matthew Violin took place in glorious sunshine on the morning of May 21 2024 at Megginch Castle.

The violin is made from an ancient apple tree that fell in the orchard of Megginch Castle. 

Dr Mike Sutton (owner of the violin) was there with its master violin maker Steve Burnett of Edinburgh, profession violinist and famous TV and film actor Thoren Ferguson who played the violin, top Press Association photographer Jane Barlow (the last person to photograph the Queen) and Hon. Catherine Drummond Herdman of Megginch Castle.

Mike Sutton with the Patrick Mathew Violin (Photograph Andy Sutton photography) 2024

The back of this fabulous master violin is made of 150+ year old Scottish apple wood, as are the sides (bouts) pegs, tailpiece and the end pin. The table (face) of the violin is made of top grade fine Dolomites spruce.

Art, most ironically, comes to the recue of a corrupted history and science

 In the current so-called "post truth age" where influential people are denying things that can be empirically proven to be true with empirical data (also known as lying) photographs of the truth are important.

Here then, for example, the art of photography Andy Sutton most ironically can also be used to inform science and history of the need to be informed by independently verifiable empirical data, not by artfully made up beloved science myths.

Our history of science has been wrongfully corrupted by a knowing lie told by Charles Darwin that no single person read Patrick Matthew's prior publication of the entire theory of evolution by natural selection. But today we now newly know, thanks to BigData analysis that in empirically proven reality, because its in published print in the historic publication record (also known as old books in print) that at least 30 people read and cited Matthew's (1831) book containing the theory before Darwin and Wallace in 1858/59 replicated it and claimed it as their own independently conceived bombshell theory. Thereafter, Darwin called it "my theory".

Do our history of science "experts" and our scientists need to be embarrassed by a photography art exhibition containing beautiful photographs of those books and periodicals , the very books and magazines etc, published before 1858 they are effectively hoping will remain buried in oblivion? Curtis Press Nonscience

Patrick Matthew and Thomas Hood Went Fishing

 The editor, publisher, poet, and humorist, Thomas Hood was born in London.  After his father, who was a bookseller, died in 1811, Hood worked in a counting house until illness forced him to move to Dundee, Scotland, to recover with relatives. In 1818 he returned to London to work as an engraver.

This information is about his visit to Patrick Matthew in the Summer of 1815. that is some 15 years before Matthew wrote his bombshell book of 1831.

 

Right so, I'm taking the train to Dundee later this month for a major press event on my book "Science Fraud" and on The Patrick Matthew Violin and Andy Sutton's poem about it all.

I have my "train book" entitled "Hood in Scotland" to read.

As a keen fly fisher myself Thomas Hood's stay in Dundee and then his meeting to go trout fishing with Patrick Matthew in the Carse of Gowrie, where I will also be headed from Dundee, is just one more set of coincidences in this story.

Mike Sutton