Science for Heretics: Why So Much of Science Is Wrong by Barrie Condon

Abstract

This title, Science for Heretics, seemed to demand a review in the Journal of Scientific Exploration; nine unanimously 5-star reviews on amazon.com lent confirmation. But I was very disappointed in this book.

Somewhere I’ve read about other work, “What’s true isn’t new and what’s new isn’t true,” and that applies here. There’s much sound criticism (in Chapters 2–6) of cosmology, quantum mechanics, relativity, string theory, chaos theory. Condon details the mutual incompatibility of relativity, gravity, and other continuous-field concepts with non-continuous concepts involving particles and quanta, and he points out that those incompatible views lead to directly conflicting conclusions about black holes.

The book is also sound in criticizing accepted cosmological views that claim to understand much while asserting that 90% or more of the universe consists of things about which we know essentially nothing except that they are needed as fudge factors: dark matter and dark energy.