Survival Praxis #22 – Plagiarism & Moral Hazard

You believe in a God who plays dice, and I in complete law and order in a world which objectively exists and which I, in a wildly speculative way, am trying to capture. I firmly believe, but I hope that someone will discover a more realistic way or rather a more tangible basis than it has been my lot to find.

Albert Einstein to Max Born (as quoted by historian, Paul Johnson in Modern Times)

Great thinkers continuously have their ideas stolen, plagiarized, and otherwise absconded for purposes, sometimes never dreamed of by them. We have customs and even laws against the theft of intellectual property not just to protect authors and inventors because justice requires that such should be the first beneficiaries of their discoveries, but also to protect the public from fakes.

The elite, in contrast, flanked by their armies of patent attorneys, ignore these customs. If you are a brilliant undergraduate, be prepared for your college professor to take the credit and be rewarded for your discoveries. He has the PhD. If you are a commoner, you have no rights. If you try to patent your invention, be prepared to be sued for patent infringement. The elite use the courts to harvest the peasants.

Michael McKibben from Leaders Technologies learned that lesson the hard way. He was the true inventor of scalable social networking and was robbed of his patents by Facebook, et al. You probably have never heard of him because the elite control the media. Instead, he and his friends have had to resort to a sort of intellectual guerrilla warfare of investigative journalism and exposé through outlets such as American Intelligence Media. His talents are being used perhaps in a more enduring way.

Many years ago, a mechanical engineer who was a friend of mine gave me the tour of his cookie factory. He had designed and built all the machinery for the factory. I had to sign a non-disclosure form before entering. I asked him, “Aren’t these machines patented?” He looked at me over the rim of his glasses, “Are you kidding me?”

Other than outright theft, new ideas or discoveries can be absconded for unintended purposes. I have already mentioned in an earlier issue James McCanney’s dismay at the military’s weaponizing of one of his electromagnetic propulsion systems. But a far more sweeping example can be found in Paul Johnson’s Modern Times, in reference to how Einstein’s Theory of Relativity was used by philosophers and social commentators to prove moral relativism:

At the beginning of the 1920s the belief began to circulate, for the first time at a popular level, that there were no longer any absolutes: of time and space, of good and evil, of knowledge, above all of value. Mistakenly but perhaps inevitably, relativity became confused with relativism.

as quoted in The Seed of Cain & the Revival of Mystic Humanism, (Stivers,1987), p. 40-41

Of course, Einstein was horrified at the dethronement of Newtonian physics and immediately saw the implications. Claiming that “God does not play dice” (as noted above) he spent the rest of his life trying to produce a unified field theory which would return the principle of certainty to the hard sciences. As Johnson adds, “He found the indeterminacy principle of quantum mechanics not only unacceptable but abhorrent.” Einstein failed.

Consequently, we should learn from such examples the value of identifying the origin of an idea or invention: a society needs to be mentored in the proper interpretation and application of the discovery which only its true author can provide. Plagiarists, copycats, imitators and thieves represent a divergence which can have devastating consequences.

As for Einstein’s search for a unified field theory, it was not until the arrival of James McCanney to Cornell University and his Induced Electric Dipole Red Shift Theory – the foundation of “the electric universe” model – that it became possible to create it. While McCanney benefited by real-time confirmation of his theory at the daily NASA briefings, he was booted out after two years. More below.

[It should be added that Einstein was a personal friend of Immanuel Velikovsky, and that after Einstein’s death, his assistant found an open copy of Velikovsky’s book, Worlds in Collision, on his desk].

Electric Universe copycats abound on the Internet. Some represent the zeal of the newly converted. Others are providing a great public service, such as the Thunderbolts Group. But because they have tried to leapfrog over McCanney’s important link in the process of discovery – and continually ignore him – it has led to false turns.

The administrative state today is governed by the kid who cheated on his spelling test in the Third Grade. He got away with it and established a life pattern of cheating which carried over into business, science, medicine and government.

The term “moral hazard” is used a lot by investors. They try to rely upon data entries in reports, balance sheets, and financial statements to decide whether an investment is sound. They use these as substitutes for on-site, day-to-day knowledge. Societies accustomed to lying and cheating on their spelling tests will devise clever ways of hiding the truth in the data.

Scientific dating methods reek of moral hazard. Vogt, Davidson and McCanney have spent much time in their presentations complaining about the deceit in the scientific community. “But, it’s peer-reviewed,” you might say. Let me tell you something. The articles in scientific journals are not read, unless one is paid to read them. It’s peer-reviewed nothing. Let that fact sink in. In this respect, the amateur is to be trusted over the professional. The professional does what he does for money; the amateur – as the word implies (amo – Latin for “love”) – does so for the love of the thing. In this respect, Douglas Vogt would be the amateur who has read the journals. Carl Sagan, for example, would be the professional who has not, because he was not paid to do so.

As an example, Vogt in one presentation explained how the data averaging in one scientific report was based upon on an investment algorithm used on Wall Street. Why didn’t this scientist’s “peers” catch such an egregious abuse of the scientific method? Like I said: “peer-reviewed nothing.”

McCanney saw the fudging of data in real-time in the free-for-all days at Cornell’s daily NASA briefings which were open to all faculty. He explains how the cult of Global Warming was originated, popularized and validated by Carl Sagan’s “green house” doctrine to explain why Venus was a volcanic CO2 hot house. It was an ad hoc impromptu rationalization to make sure that Immanuel Velikovsky’s cometary thesis remained buried in the ground. The off-shoot of this duplicity evolved into an entire scientific movement which has bankrupted the economies of the Western world through malinvestment.

Like the passengers on the sinking Titanic, the common people were not informed of their impending doom until after the elite had safely boarded their life boats. “We don’t want a panic, now do we?”

This is your moral hazard: if you are not elite, you will not be informed. We are running out of runway.

The institutions of power will not shift unless there is a profit incentive. Currently, we are wasting vast sums of money and manpower on a dubious climate model based upon fake science.

It would be possible and very profitable to produce survival pods for the coming nova event. The technology is there. But fake science prevents an emerging market for survival pods. The kids who cheated on their spelling tests are still in charge and shape public opinion. The public is not aware of the impending disaster.

I don’t spend much money at self-promotion. This website is targeting a specific, tiny audience: the “desposynic dispersion.” If the word “desposyni” doesn’t mean anything to you, then this website will likely be just a passing curiosity.

I will protect my copyright as best I can. Your moral hazard is reduced if you can identify the true author of an idea or concept. You have to go to the source for authentication and accurate elucidation.

Good luck!

JWS, July 17th, 2022
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