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Vol. 24 2020 ISSN 1041­5440 DIO UltraAcademe's Secret Files The North Pole Priority­Conspiracy Schemers' Own VERY Explicit Words What Is Scholarly Consensus Worth? Nat. Acad. Sci. VP's License to Kill —Dissent Academe Protected Peary North Pole Hoax Enduringest Science Fraud of the 20th Century CanAcademeEverAdmit Banished Amundsen 1st to the South Pole AND 1st to the North Pole? Peary Could've Easily Proven North Pole Tale 5thLie: After 3 Fake Lands & Exaggerated Farthest North JohnsHopkinsUniversity President:His Threat Snuffs YaleU Book Showing Peary Proofless JoinsPearys in Celebrating Skeptics' Deaths Swindles Author's Widow of Pride & Royalties 2 2020 DIO 24 2020 DIO 24 3 Download DIO 24, www.dioi.org/jo00.pdf. US Science's Apex Robs Amundsen & Ward by Hiding the Secret of Peary's Prooflessness Table of Contents Page: Leading Scientists Conspire to Hide Evidence of a HolyFraud History of an Honest Investigator Vs a Devious Establishment Preface 3 Scientists Cooperating: in Doing the Very Opposite of Science xA US Science's Triple Trouble: North Pole Fakers Cook, Peary, Byrd. 4 xB 3 Fake Lands + Farthest + North Pole = 5 Peary Lies. True Discoverer Exiled. 4 Preface: Fluke Leakage of Top­Secret High­Academe Crime xC 4 Ways Peary Could've Proved Claim. And: Who REALLY Trusts the Press. 8 [1] It is science's opposite to place on critics the burden of proof re a scientific contention. xD Double­Secret­Failsafe Cheating of Double­Pole Discoverer Roald Amundsen 10 [2] It is science's opposite to secrete evidence bearing on a scientific contention. xE Cagey AGSociety: “Not a Thing That Can Be Written” 12 [3] It is science's opposite to threaten the publisher of such evidence. xF Explain Yourself, Sirrah! Ed Stafford & Marie Peary as GoodCop­BadCop 16 Most if not all of the following details of high­academe conniving — in service to xG Mogul Proudly Deceives Ward. Lapdog Press Betrays Amundsen. 18 protecting an institutionally­useful but institutionally­overinvested world­sensation lie — xH Izzy's Mantra Gutted: Peary's 1909 Vise­on­the­Ice Forces “Incredible” Tale 21 might never have come to light had it not been for the late Carlton Wells, a University of xI Excellenz Dissembles: Dodging the Devil 24 Michigan English professor at Ann Arbor, who happened to see DR's 1970 June Peary­ xJ What Discriminating Mil­Dew Can­Do: Disappearances Hide the 1906 Fakes 25 skeptical paper in the US Naval Institute Proceedings, a professional journal which he took xK Stern, Twinkly, Husky Johns Hopkins President CELEBRATES Skeptics' Deaths 27 since his son was Navy. Wells recalled: in the 1930s a book critical of Peary's North Pole xL SpyderWebs of Tractable Careerists: The Grovels of Academe 30 legend, written by well­known (xE1 below) skeptical writer & English textbook author xM “I TREMBLE”: Godfather­Gofer's Neutrality­Pose Kills Henshaw Ward's Book 30 Charles Henshaw Ward, had been due to appear out of Yale University Press but ultimately xN How Expert Was the Archon That Careerists Kissed­Up To? 40 hadn't. We wondered how to trace its fate. Wells had the idea of writing to Ward's textbook xO THE REPORT: Mogul as Truth­Snuffer 41 publisher, Scott, Foresman Co., for the address of his widow Florence Ward, on the slim xP Cavemen at Yale Press 52 chances that she was still alive over 1/3 of a century later (when Ward would have been 97!) xQ Trust­Me for Keeping Secrets From You 53 — and that she had preserved his mss. Incredibly, both chance­dreams came true. xR Ward Warns Academe from the Grave 54 (Full details of pursuit & resulting finds: DR's 1973 book Peary . Fiction? pp.281­290.) xS Organized Swindling of the Widow 54 Ward's English Journal obit realized [F281]: “The passing of a man who had affected xT Expanding the Circle of Suppressors 56 American life as much by commercial or political activity as Ward did by teaching and xU 24 Ward FACTS Bowman Hid — For the Public's Own Good. Of course. 57 writing would have been featured by the daily press throughout the country.” xV Ultimate Secret: Bowman Knew Proofless Record Couldn't Pass Scientific Exam 60 Below we'll learn, from secret letters' accidental (xW3 here) survival, how false schol­ xW CoveringUp Coverups. Stolen Youth. University as PoliceState Convent. 66 arly consensus was fabricated&controlled by power­obsessed scientists (& lackeys, esp. the press) in 20th century academe. (Other centuries: www.dioi.org/ad.pdf.) Sadly, from Abbreviations & Source­Pursuits exploding fiscal priorities, academe's integrity­ensuring forces are now even weaker (e.g., Prefix “W” to a number indicates reference to a page in Henshaw Ward's The Peary xxW3­W10 below), as scholars' shyness of opposing corruption (fearing the exposed's Myth: A Study in American Glory 1935 ms, unpublished by Yale Press, finally available at revenge against funding) is ever­more normal. Yet all is countered by a magnificent www.dioi.org/ph.pdf (slow download), using continuous pagination at upper­right corner. & hard­earned cumulative achievement: modern academe is now the grandest generator “DR” here refers to the present account's publisher (D. Rawlins; partial vitas: scientific at of new scientific knowledge in history. This, despite: [a] inferior sectors which exploit www.dioi.org/vols/wm0.pdf, pp.2&44; scientific history at www.dioi.org/ji00.pdf, p.70). pseudo­refereeing & slack ethics­enforcement, esp. in soft fields (which will spread, as mon­ The prefix “F” to a number indicates reference to a page in DR's book, Peary at the North itors slumber); [b] persistence (www.dioi.org/ad.pdf, www.dioi.org/jL07.pdf) in sanctifying Pole: Fact or Fiction? Luce, Washington, DC 1973, online at www.dioi.org/rp.pdf, plus false, even crank views, for decades on end (e.g., ranking faker­astrologer Ptolemy as “Great main reviews. (Sole major pan revealed hilarious case of credulity and fake reviewing by est”: fn 16; Peary's steerless N.Pole), via insular­unaccountable, circularly intra­evaluated Christopher Lehmann­Haupt at the NY Times: www.dioi.org/j225.pdf, fn 22.) cliques (e.g., the scientifically pathetic, thus too­often vicious&dishonest History­of­science Prefix “BR” to a number indicates reference to a page in Robert Bryce's definitive book, field: www.dioi.org/ns.htm; www.dioi.org/vols/wm0.pdf, pp.4­5&8­9&54­55&87 fnn 2­6). Cook&Peary: The Polar Controversy, Resolved Stackpole, Mechanicsburg, PA 1997. Some welcome good news: long top villain of the Peary coverup explored here, Na­ Bryce proofed the present issue with the very highest care and expertise. tional Geographic has half­turned a leaf on its Peary­involvement (www.dioi.org/j936.pdf, end of fn 70; R.Bryce DIO 21 xK1), while emitting maps, programs, & videos which NB: DR's & RB's books both bear thousands of precise source­references (pp.295­320 & pp.992­1122, respectively) that should be consulted by those pursuing the subject in detail. — given their popular orientation — are at high standards of accuracy&production. [National Geographic History 2020 Jan­Feb pp.3&74­89 on North Pole seekers hap­ pily doubts Peary's claim & promotes Plaisted's. (But no mention of the man gen­ Conventions uinely&unquestionably 1stat the North Pole, NGS­ejected Roald Amundsen: xB18 below.)] All miles in what follows are nautical or geographical miles of c.6076 ft (about 15% larger Possibly a trend — which we are glad to encourage, while hoping it has finally become than 5280 ft statute miles), or virtually 1 arcminute on the Earth's surface. Ward follows monotonic. Another unexpected surprise in the Peary history revealed here, will be the the same usage [W15]. Newspaper citations are in the form year/month/day:page:column. identity of the one person who was deeply involved yet 100.00%­certainly did NOT con­ spire: you can go ahead now to xV17 below and find out who, but it's recommended that Commentary you instead wend your way through every sly page of the whole dark labyrinth that follows In the letters quoted below, all bracketed comments are by DR. below — and induce it for yourself along the way. [Stay alert!] 4 US Science Robs Roald Amundsen & Henshaw Ward 2020 DIO 24 US Science Robs Roald Amundsen & Henshaw Ward 2020 DIO 24 5 ◦ 0 A US Science's Triple Trouble: North Pole Fakers Cook, Peary, Byrd. 90 mi the top latitude reached, to claim a record Farthest­North­on­Land: 81 35 N. He accomplished this by merely inverting a “9” to create a “6” in the degrees place of his A1 The primary lesson and theme of what follows is that the United States' triple­North­ sextant double­altitude. (Details: www.dioi.org/hay.htm, #btfz.) He returned to a nation at Pole­hoax — perpetrated successively by Frederick Cook & Robert Peary & Richard Byrd war, suffering no lack of excitement — uninterested in polar dramas or latitudes. — did not JUST­HAPPEN. Interested institutions' slipshod evaluations and subsequent B4 On 1871/8/28, honest&driven US explorer Charles F. Hall's expedition reached ◦ 0 definitelyunslipshod, short­term­clever sinuous coverups of the inevitable embarrassing Hayes' purported 81 35 N and realized that where he&Kane reported an Open Polar Sea consequences so encouraged and/or enabled the fraudulent trio that these organizations there was actually just a slim strait, as Kane's 2nd­in­command Johan Carl Christian Petersen deserve the prime “credit” for the deceivers' variously temporary successes. (Details: had earlier reported (p.149 of O.Villarejo's revealing 1961 U.Penn book on the Kane mutiny, = DIO 10 [2000] www.dioi.org/ja00.pdf, pp.4­5 & footnote.) The tri­hoax was nurtured which Hayes had joined): “it is nothing but a passage [consistently narrow (c.20 mi wide) by a long history of organized geography's over­enthusiastic, insufficientlyguarded fiscal Kennedy Channel, along which Kane's steward Wm.Morton & Eskimo Hans2 had already exploitation [W74] of the publicity&glamour of explorer­heroes, a practice which actually travelled c.10 mi!] and none of us has seen any Polar Ocean.” Hall­expedition­member & began in England, with the ambition of the Royal Geographical Society's guiding force, survivor George Tyson's diary entry for that date; “Can't make any thing out of [Hayes'] Roderick Murchison.
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