Experts Aren’t, or Are They? – Garret Moddel, PhD – January 26, 2024

Experts Aren’t, or Are They?

Garrret Moddel, PhD

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Fri. January 26 at Noon – 2:30 pm (doors open at 11:30 am) 

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Experts Aren’t, or Are They?

ABSTRACT:

Maverick science has a long history of being shunned by the mainstream. How can we know when to trust the experts or when to take the maverick assertions seriously?

We’ll have a look at the following examples:

 

  • Speed of gravity: If the pull of gravity between the Sun and Earth travelled at the speed of light, the Earth’s orbit would go haywire.
  • Perpetual motion in John Bedini’s free energy motor powered by a battery charged by charge spikes is supported by an extensive free energy movement but ignored by the mainstream.
  • Anthropogenic climate change: Do you really believe those models?
  • Early Alzheimer’s treatment: Halting Alzheimer’s disease with lithium microdoses is reported much less than drug cures that are not nearly as effective.
  • Free will: An illusion?
  • Reiki: “If there was any legitimacy to this technique, it could be demonstrated.”
  • Remote viewing: Just anecdotal evidence and shaky statistics?
  • Water fluoridation: “There are many myths about fluoridation in water. We debunk them all!”
  • Is the Big Bang now certain? An innovative scale-expanding theory explaining the apparent age of the Universe and other observations by Johan Masreliez (presented in the Boulder SSE in 2014) has been completely ignored by mainstream cosmologists.

 

Has the shunning of maverick science suppressed scientific advancement, or are a lot of amateur researchers and inventors fooling themselves? (Yep and yep) I present a set of protocols for evaluating maverick science. No matter your perspective, you are likely to disagree with at least some of my observations about this perpetually controversial issue.

BIO:

Garret Moddel is a professor of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering at the University of Colorado. Along with developing new energy conversion technologies including from quantum vacuum fluctuations, his research group investigates other maverick science phenomena. Currently he is serving as SSE Vice President, and was the organizations previous president, and prior to that, president & CEO of Phiar Corporation, a high-tech start-up company. Garret earned a BSEE degree from Stanford and MS and PhD degrees in Applied Physics from Harvard.

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