Harmonia Philosophica

Month: December 2012

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    The greatest scientific discovery of 2013… WIMP!

    Yes. We have seen it before. We give something a name and suddently we are able to “discover” it. WIMP (as in hypothetical particles serving as one possible solution to the dark matter problem) is the new “Higgs boson”. As in… here. Or… here. And we used to laugh at people who believed in aether…

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    Wars, syndromes, psychiatry…

    People went through World War I. People went through World War II. People went thought the war in Iraq. It was only after the two last wars that people returned home with so many psychological problems and “syndromes”. Is it because of the industry of psychiatry creating so many “false” diseases? Is it because people […]

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    Science, implying, lying…

    Surfing through the science news, one might come across a rather interesting case: Scientists have fabricated an artificial protein in the laboratory and examined the effects it has on living organisms. [1] Well, what is so important about that? one might ask. The importance is not on the news themselves. It is on the way they […]

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    Peer Review. As in “censorship”.

    Peer review has troubled Harmonia Philosophica for some time now. We live in a society which accepts the mainstream and condemns anything beyond it with a great ease. An idea, no matter how genius or clever, it will never be published on a “high profile” scientific magazine only because… well Because! As simple as that. […]

  • Inefficient politicians, Power families, Demos…

    A new research shows that 42 out of the 43 American presidents are… cousins! Yes, all American presidents seem to be related and they all (except the 8th president) are descedants of one single person: King John of England. [1] If that is true, then the conspiracy all people hate to love – i.e. that […]