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  1. Chris Reeve said

    2015/03/20 at 9:24 am

    Henry, I have just begun reading your text, “Dogmatism in Science and Medicine”. I’ve studied the claims made by the Thunderbolts Group for a decade now, and I am intent on creating a website which will map out ALL of the controversies of science. I just started web development school this week, and I’ve been trying to think of what a site like this would look like already for four years now. David Talbott and Wal Thornhill appear to appreciate my approach.

    If you have a free moment, please read my proposal here:

    https://plus.google.com/108466508041843226480/posts/dMHANkfxsUf

    Note that you can zoom into the image with a mouse. Please let me know if you have trouble in this regard.

    There is no business plan here. This is simply the idea itself. It still needs to be adapted to one or more target audiences (graduate students? the public? science journalists?), and there are some user interaction aspects which still need to be figured out. But, I am convinced that this design represents an important first step.

    I believe that this design has the potential to resolve the issues you bring up in your book, but the details will matter quite a bit — which is why I am hoping that you will think about what I’m proposing, and provide some detailed feedback. We appear to want the exact same thing.

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    • Henry Bauer said

      2015/03/20 at 9:55 am

      Chris Reeve:

      You may get some ideas also from the Institute for Venture Science.

      I would certainly like to see an on-line continually updated listing of contemporary controversies. A perennial problem will be what not to include: are there any counter-mainstream claims that are so off-the-wall or lacking evidence that they should be excluded? Say scientific creationism or intelligent design?
      My suggestion would be that nothing be excluded, but that topics like those two (one?) be listed in a sub-group WITH FULL EXPLANATION AS TO WHY THEY ARE NOT CONSIDERED — by the website’s moderator or advisers — PROPER SCIENTIFIC CONTROVERSIES.

      Re user interaction, of course all comments need to be moderated, and again you will be faced with decisions: who is so crackpottish a crackpot as to be censored?

      But do go ahead, just a comprehensive listing would be a valuable resource.

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