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.

Friday, 1 September 2023

The Honest Charles Darwin Supermyth

 A supermyth is a myth that is entrenched (supported) by another related myth.

The myth that Charles Darwin (1858/59) originated the theory of "process of natural selection" independently ff Patrick Matthew's (18310 "natural process of selection"  and that each used the same four words to name it is supported by the myth of Charles Darwin being incredibly honest. 

The supermyth was busted some years ago (e.g. Sutton 2017). Then in August/September 2023 Artificial Intelligence (ChatGPT and others) have scanned the new Big Data and other findings in the literature to conclude that Darwin lied about the prior readership of Patrick Matthew's (1831) book 'On Naval Timber and Arboriculture' and the bombshell original ideas in it.

See The Patrick Matthew Blog for the details. Here: http://patrickmathew.blogspot.com/2023/09/artificial-intelligence-concludes.html







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