The Dysology Hypothesis

Letting scholars get away with publishing fallacies and myths signals to others the existence of topics where guardians of good scholarship might be less capable than elsewhere. Such dysology then serves as an allurement to poor scholars to disseminate existing myths and fallacies and to create and publish their own in these topic areas, which leads to a downward spiral of diminishing veracity on particular topics.

Wednesday, 17 September 2014

The Last Sunday Lecture at Conway Hall was on Darwin's and Wallace's Great Science Fraud


An article on my 2014 Sunday Lecture is published in the Ethical Record
The article is open access. 

Reference
Sutton, M. (2014) A Dreadful Discovery: Big Data Proves Wallace and Darwin Counterfeit Discoverers. Journal Ethical Record. Volume 119 Issue 8 .Pages 7-14 Publisher Conway Hall Ethical Society Full issue available here: http://ethicalrecord.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Ethical-Record-August-September-2014.pdf   

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