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A quotation from Curie, Marie

I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale. We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, machines, gearings, even though such machinery also has its beauty.

Marie Curie (1867-1934) Polish-French physicist and chemist [b. Maria Salomea Skłodowska]
“The Future of Culture [L’Avenir de la Culture]” conference, Madrid (1933-05-03/07)

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"The Future of Culture [L'Avenir de la Culture]" conference, Madrid (1933-05-03/07) - Curie, Marie | WIST Quotations

I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale. We should not allow it to be believed that...

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A quotation from Dyson, Freeman

Science as subversion has a long history. There is a long list of scientists who sat in jail and of other scientists who helped them get out and incidentally saved their lives. […] [Chandler] Davis and [Andrei] Sakharov belong to an old tradition in science that goes all the way back to the rebels Benjamin Franklin and Joseph Priestley in the eighteenth century, to Galileo and Giordano Bruno in the seventeenth and sixteenth. If science ceases to be a rebellion against authority, then it does not deserve the talents of our brightest children. […] We should try to introduce our children to science today as a rebellion against poverty and ugliness and militarism and economic injustice.

Freeman Dyson (1923-2020) English-American theoretical physicist, mathematician, futurist
The Scientist as Rebel, Part 1, ch. 1 “The Scientist as Rebel” (2006)

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The Scientist as Rebel, Part 1, ch. 1 "The Scientist as Rebel" (2006) - Dyson, Freeman | WIST

Science as subversion has a long history. There is a long list of scientists who sat in jail and of other scientists who helped them get out and

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#worldbank #Australia
The fate of my esteemed friend Dr. Lilliana Corredor makes me just bewildered.
And, please read the article itself, it is unfortunately not a single case ...
#worldbank #Australien
Das Schicksal meiner hoch geschätzten Freundin Dr. Lilliana Corredor macht mich gerade fassungslos.
Und, bitte lest selbst im Artikel, sie ist leider kein Einzelfall...

What happens when scientists stand up for science

I know this for a fact. I was #blacklisted by The World Bank & the Australian Government in 1998, so no #research institution or #University would ever give me a job worldwide as a #Scientist. This followed my exposure of the supression of vital studies by the Australian Government since 1988, which demonstrated that the Great Barrier Reef was in serious peril from #Climate #Warming, coastal pollution and the Crown of Thorns seastar. In1998, I attended the "Coral Reef Initiative #Symposium" in #Townsville - a Think Tank with 365 Coral Reef experts from around the world, aimed at finding out the state of health of coral reefs around the world and proposing management strategies for the next 2 years. Unfortunately, the amazing results of4 days deliberations were watered down by the World Bank, and no real policy changes requested from governments to protect reefs...

I participated as an independent #Environmental #Education #Activist and was asked to head one of the many workshops taking place throughout 4 days. I distributed a document exposing the Australian Government's #suppression of information for the past 10 years on the state of Health of the Great Barrier Reef. In this document I presented scientific evidence of the impacts on the #GBR of coastal pollution, global warming and the Crown of Thorns seastar infestation. I rejected the Australian Government's statement that the GBR was in "excellent condition".
I cited Australian research concluding that over 500 km of the GBR were extremely damaged and #bleached (i.e. 25% of the whole #reef). I also cited evidence (33 pages) of the destruction of most litoral reefs, the breach and disregard of environmental protection laws by most Australian Government Agencies, and the abuse of #Aboriginal Rights.

I was present when the World Bank representative told the participating scientists: "You are not allowed to either publish nor disclose to the public or the media any Information discussed during this symposium. We remind you that we directly or indirectly fund your institution and/or your research. Any breach of confidentiality will result in loss of funding and dismissal!"

I was shocked! I said I didn't care as I wasn't affiliated to any institution and did my Environmental Education campaign at my own expense. I loudly decried the lies by the Australian Government and the #censorship by the World Bank.

My actions resulted in: 1) My name being deleted so I would not appear in the Proceedings if the Symposium; 2) The Australian Government banning the media from giving me any interviews: and 3) A "Vilification Campaign" aimed at discrediting me. The Australian Government representatives told everyone at the symposium that "Lilliana Corredor is an unknown person, a #trouble-maker, and is not even a true scientist. She's Colombian and we believe her Diplomas are forged, as commonly done in Colombia"...

I was told by a participant to quickly distribute copies of my Diplomas to key members of the symposium to refute the Australian Government's false claims. This I did.

To the dismay of the World Bank and the Australian Government officials, the newly appointed "#CRI Secretary" was Dr. BERNARD #SALVAT, a French scientist renowned as the number one coral reef specialist in the world- and he came out to my defense!

At the closing dinner, Dr Salvat stood up and decried the vindictive and falsehood of the rumors circulating around the Symposium discrediting me.

Dr. Salvat told the 365 participants that:
"1) Dr Corredor was my Coral Reef student at "Jussieu Paris VI University" in 1978-79;
2) She's one of the most knowledgeable scientists I know. She taught me a lot about the reefs of the Caribbean Sea on which she specialized.
3) Yesterday I spoke to Dr Kim #Ng, head of the School of Behavioural Sciences at La Trobe University in #Melbourne. He told me he knew Dr Corredor well, as he had been her PhD thesis supervisor for 5 years. He also told me she is one of the best students he has had.
4) I studied in detail the Submission she gave many of us regarding the impacts of coastal pollution, climate warming and crown of thorns on the GBR. I am shocked by the Australian Government's reaction to Dr #Corredor. She has done an extraordinary research paper and 'free of charge'. She ought to be commended and paid for her efforts instead of being vilified! This is outrageous and demerits the Australian Government!"

The #GBRMPA and other Australian officials went green in the face. Yet, one stood up and asked: "If Dr. Corredor's claims were true would she please explain what reason would the Australian Government have to suppress information on the reef?"

I replied that protecting the Tourist industry worth several billion dollars was a good reason.

How naive of me! Little did I know at the time that the real reason was to deny the imoact of Australian #Coal #mining industry on #Climate #warming - the culprit behind the massive bleaching of the GBR...

By the way, to this day the Australian Government demonstrates a total disregard for the environmental impacts of its industries. In fact, it has given the go ahead to the biggest #Carmichael Coal mine and coal ports at the door of the GBR!

Professor #Hughes, who was present at the Synposiun said nothing! Nowadays he appears on TV crying about the loss of the GBR and asking the Australian government to leave Coal in the ground and reduce carbon emissions... too late!

Morality of the story:
Scientists fearful of loosing their jobs help co-create ecological disasters. While dissenting scientists get gagged and sacked!

FYI:

Dr. Lilliana Corredor
Founder & Coordinator
40 years Expertise in Water

Expert in Biology and Chemistry (B.Sc.)
Marine Biology (M.Sc.)
General Oceanography (M.Sc.)
Biological Oceanography (D.E.A.)
Behavioural Sciences (PhD)
Environmental Educator

Based in NSW, Australia.

Website: Scientists for the Mekong
Weekly updates: Scientists for the Mekong on facebook
Skype: lillianacorredor
1) Twitter: Dr. Lilliana Corredor @Amarial1
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What happens when scientists stand up for science

It’s not a new phenomenon that scientists who challenge the orthodoxy or policy positions suffer career ramifications.

dredmorbius@joindiaspora.com
Doc Morbius (moved to Glasswings)

Many of the "physics" terms used in other disciplines ...

... originally started in other disciplines.

@woozle@hey.iseeamess.com happens to bring up the concept of "physics envy" as he discusses the term "power" used in a political context

It should be remembered that the concepts of power and gravity were actually borrowed by physics:

Power:

c.1300, "ability; ability to act or do; strength, vigor, might," especially in battle; "efficacy; control, mastery, lordship, dominion; legal power or authority; authorization; military force, an army," from Anglo-French pouair, Old French povoir, noun use of the infinitive, "to be able," earlier podir (9c.), from Vulgar Latin *potere, from Latin potis "powerful" (see potent).

Whatever some hypocritical ministers of government may say about it, power is the greatest of all pleasures. It seems to me that only love can beat it, and love is a happy illness that can't be picked up as easily as a Ministry. [Stendhal "de l'Amour," 1822]

Meaning "one who has power" is late 14c. Meaning "specific ability or capacity" is from early 15c. Meaning "a state or nation with regard to international authority or influence" [OED] is from 1726. Used for "a large number of" from 1660s. Meaning "energy available for work is from 1727. Sense of "electrical supply" is from 1896.

Gravity:

c.1500, "weight, dignity, seriousness," from Middle French gravité "seriousness, thoughtfulness," and directly from Latin gravitatem (nominative gravitas) "weight, heaviness, pressure," from gravis "heavy" (see grave (adj.)). The scientific sense of "force that gives weight to objects" first recorded 1640s.

Those established terms were adopted by natural philosophers (they weren't yet scientists -- 1834, from "science" + "artist") as they found a need for language to describe the new concepts they were positing. More recently it's been quarks, charm, and spin.

In my own explorations of economics and the many, many, many flaws in existing orthodox theory, one of the pretty evident historical accidents is that economics modeled itself after classical Newtonian statics, dating to the late 1600s, just as the concepts of energy and thermodynamics were being established. Smith wrote in 1776, while the first scientific use of "energy" is dated to 1807, and Lord Kelvin's formal expression of thermodynamics didn't occur until 1854.

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