The Canon

http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/8a7.htm  To change the metaphor, a body of knowledge is like a large raft on which all kinds of violent games can and must be played, but no one must attack the raft on which they stand, because then everyone would drown in new ideas.

 

Tony,

Decades ago I should have realised that talking to people like you is talking at cross purposes. You publish perhaps five articles per year for say 40 years, and so say there is no censorship. That is true, because you write and publish within the canon.

I am unable to publish, because I consistently try to publish outside the canon. That is, I always have something important to say which threatens the canon. In contrast, you are a creature of the canon, and reinforce, or decorate it.

http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x6611.pdf  

It is easy to prove this thesis.

From your enormous number of published articles, please choose the article which is most damaging to what is always taught in schools, universities, text books and lecture notes. You will probably not be able to produce one such article.

Now look among peer (consensus) reviewed articles and books published by Catt, and give us an example of an article or chapter which does not call for a change in what is taught in schools or colleges. You will not find one example. Also, please tell us which articles in this series http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x18j1.htm were correctly not accepted for publication in peer reviewed journals.

"....  which does not call for a change .... " is pivotal. Someone like Tony Davies can decorate the canon, adding material, another chapter to the text book. But he will not, cannot, call for the removal of a chapter.

The situation is complicated by the massive amount of non-peer reviewed articles and books published by Catt, with censorship only by alternate editors.

http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x18j1.htm . For thirty years, one after another, a Wireless World editor would publish me every month, the next editor totally bann me, the next editor publish me every month etc.

http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/em.htm Attacked by the IEE; http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/9_review.htm "Catt's belief in his own work is clearly sincere, but this reviewer, after lengthy and careful consideration, can find virtually nothing of value in this book.  B. LAGO, IEE

http://www.ivorcatt.org/digital-hardware-design.htm

http://www.forrestbishop.mysite.com/  Five books.

 

http://www.tonydavies.org.uk/  

 

In the past, caloric or phlogiston theory could be enhanced, decorated, but not removed. For fifty years, discussion over the possible removal of electric current has been banned. http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x8cbwash.htm

 

Tony, as with all my websites, your comments will be added here;

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Ivor Catt 3.3.2020