IDOM 48 References

The crisis in science: Progress, stagnation, and revolution

  1.  ‘‘An Existential Crisis’ for Science’, Institute for Policy Research, 28 February, 2024

  2.  M Park, E Leahey, R J Funk, ‘Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time’, Nature, No. 613, 2023, pg 138-144

  3.  ibid.

  4.  ibid.

  5.  ibid.

  6.  N Bloom et al., ‘Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?’, American Economic Review, Vol. 110, No. 4, 2020, pg 1104-1144

  7.  M Baker, ‘1,500 scientists lift the lid on reproducibility’, Nature, No. 533, 2016, pg 452

  8.  C G Begley, L M Ellis, ‘Raise standards for preclinical cancer research’, Nature, No. 483, 2012, pg 531; and F Prinz, T Schlange, K Asadullah, ‘Believe it or not: how much can we rely on published data on potential drug targets?’, Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, No. 10, 2011, pg 712

  9.  R McKie, ‘‘The situation has become appalling’: fake scientific papers push research credibility to crisis point’, The Guardian, 3 February, 2024

  10.  R Van Noorden, ‘More than 10,000 research papers were retracted in 2023 — a new record’, Nature, No. 624, 2023, pg 479

  11.  Quoted in H Devlin, ‘James Webb telescope detects evidence of ancient ‘universe breaker’ galaxies’, The Guardian, 22 February 2023

  12.  A Witze, ‘Four revelations from the Webb telescope about distant galaxies’, Nature, No. 608, 2022, pg 18-19

  13.  E Lerner, The Big Bang Never Happened, Simon and Schuster, 1991, pg 4

  14.  J D Bernal, Science in History, Watts and Co., 1954, pg 13

  15.  F Engels, Anti-Dühring, Wellred Books, 2017, pg 50

  16.  V I Lenin, Materialism and Empirio-criticism, Wellred Books, 2021, pg 105

  17.  ibid. pg 107

  18.  F Engels, ‘Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy’, Karl Marx Frederick Engels Collected Works, Vol. 26, Progress Publishers, 1990, pg 359

  19.  F Engels, ‘Dialectics of Nature’, Karl Marx Frederick Engels Collected Works, Vol. 25, Progress Publishers, 1987, pg 520

  20.  T Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Fourth Edition, University of Chicago Press, 2012, pg 24

  21.  ibid. pg 53

  22.  ibid, pg 52

  23.  ibid, pg 93-94

  24. ibid.

  25.  J D Bernal, Science in History, Watts and Co., 1954, pg 28

  26.  ibid.

  27.  ibid. pg 29

  28. ibid. pg x

  29.  ibid, pg 23

  30.  F Engels, Anti-Dühring, Wellred Books, 2017, pg 31

  31.  J D Bernal, The Social Function of Science, Routledge and Sons, 1946, pg 27

  32.  M Peel, E Olcott, ‘China-US tensions erode co-operation on science and tech’, Financial Times, 19 August, 2024

  33.  W Tan, ‘Is arXiv a monopoly bully in scientific publication?’, Perfectly Imperfect Mirrors, 15 May, 2021

  34.  L Trotsky, ‘Dialectical Materialism and Science’, The New International, Vol. 6, No. 1, 1940, pg 31

  35.  V I Lenin, ‘The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism’, Lenin Collected Works, Vol. 19, Progress Publishers, 1977, pg 21

  36.  K Marx, F Engels, The German Ideology, Progress Publishers, 1976, pg 67

  37.  V I Lenin, ‘On the Significance of Militant Materialism’, Lenin Collected Works, Vol. 33. Progress Publishers, 1966, pg 228

  38.  K Marx, F Engels, ‘The Communist Manifesto’, The Classics of Marxism, Vol. 1, Wellred Books, 2013, pg 5-6

Helgoland: a quantum physicist’s crusade against Lenin

  1.  C Rovelli, Helgoland, Allen Lane, 2021, pg 1

  2.  ibid. pg 2

  3.  ibid. pg 12

  4.  N Bohr, ‘Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature’, Collected Works, Vol. 6, North-Holland Physics Publishing, 1985, pg 296

  5.  C Rovelli, Helgoland, Allen Lane, 2021, pg 20

  6.  ibid. pg 56

  7.  V I Lenin, Materialism and Empirio-criticism, Wellred Books, 2021, pg 137-138

  8.  C Rovelli, Helgoland, Allen Lane, 2021, pg 69

  9.  ibid. pg 71

  10.  ibid. pg 78

  11.  ibid. pg 131

  12.  Quoted in ibid. pg 75

  13.  New Scientist, Issue 2950, 4 January 2014

  14.  V I Lenin, Materialism and Empirio-criticism, Wellred Books, 2021, pg 218

  15.  C Rovelli, Helgoland, Allen Lane, 2021, pg 105

  16.  V I Lenin, Materialism and Empirio-criticism, Wellred Books, 2021, pg 210-211

  17.  ibid. pg 227

  18.  B Kastrup, ‘Here I part ways with Rovelli’, bernardokastrup.com, June 2021

  19.  C Rovelli, Helgoland, Allen Lane, 2021, pg 114

  20.  ibid. pg 111

  21.  P Jordan, Physics of the 20th Century, Philosophical Library, 1944, pg 160

  22.  Quoted in D Hoffmann, M Walker, ‘Der gute Nazi: Pascual Jordan und das Dritte Reich’, Pascual Jordan (1902–1980): Mainzer Symposium zum 100. Geburtstag, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 2007, pg 100, our translation

Faust: In the beginning was the Deed

  1.  J W von Goethe, Poetry And Truth From My Own Life, Vol. 1, George Bell and Sons, 1913, pg 229-230

  2.  Quoted in R Safranski, Goethe : Kunstwerk des Lebens, Carl Hanser Verlag, 2013, pg 155, tr. D Dollenmayer

  3.  H Heine, ‘The Romantic School’, The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine, Arno Press, 1973, pg 115

  4.  J W von Goethe, Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret, George Bell and Sons, 1875, pg 507

  5.  J W von Goethe, C Hamlin (ed.), Faust, Norton, 2001, pg 515

  6.  Quoted in R Safranski, Goethe : Kunstwerk des Lebens, Carl Hanser Verlag, 2013, pg 100, tr. D Dollenmayer

  7.  J W von Goethe, C Hamlin (ed.), Faust, Norton, 2001, pg 31

  8.  ibid. pg 12

  9.  ibid

  10.  ibid.

  11.  ibid. pg 34

  12.  R Safranski, Goethe: Life as a Work of Art, Liveright, 2017, pg 311

  13.  J W von Goethe, C Hamlin (ed.), Faust, Norton, 2001, pg 51

  14.  ibid. pg 53

  15.  K Marx, ‘Theses on Feuerbach’, The Revolutionary Philosophy of Marxism, Wellred Books, 2021, pg 51

  16.  J W von Goethe, C Hamlin (ed.), Faust, Norton, 2001, pg 37

  17.  ibid.

  18.  G W F Hegel, ‘Hegel to Goethe – April 24, 1825’, Hegel: The Letters, Indiana University Press, 1984, pg 709

  19.  F Engels, ‘Engels to C Schmidt, October 27, 1890’, Marx, Engels, Lenin: On Historical Materialism, Progress Publishers, 1976, pg 301

  20.  J W von Goethe, C Hamlin (ed.), Faust, Norton, 2001, pg 10

  21.  ibid. pg 36

  22.  F Engels, ‘Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy’, Karl Marx Frederick Engels Collected Works, Vol. 26, Progress Publishers, 1990, pg 378

  23.  J W von Goethe, C Hamlin (ed.), Faust, Norton, 2001, pg 143

  24.  ibid. pg 77

  25.  ibid. pg 317

  26.  K Marx, Capital, Vol. 1, Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1961, pg 760

  27.  J W von Goethe, C Hamlin (ed.), Faust, Norton, 2001, pg 376

  28.  K Marx, ‘Karl Marx’s “Confession”’, printed in International Review of Social History, Vol. 1, 1956, pg 108

  29.  J W von Goethe, C Hamlin (ed.), Faust, Norton, 2001, pg 71

  30.  ibid. pg 73

  31.  ibid. pg 86

  32.  ibid. pg 126

  33.  Quoted in F Engels, ‘German Socialism in Verse and Prose’, Karl Marx Frederick Engels Collected Works, Vol. 6, Progress Publishers, 1976, pg 266

  34.  R Safranski, Goethe : Kunstwerk des Lebens, Carl Hanser Verlag, 2013, pg 623, tr. D Dollenmayer

  35.  J W von Goethe, C Hamlin (ed.), Faust, Norton, 2001, pg 547

  36.  F Engels, Anti-Dühring, Wellred Books, 2017, pg 50

  37.  J W von Goethe, C Hamlin (ed.), Faust, Norton, 2001, pg 11

In defence of dialectics: a critique of Mao's 'On Contradiction

  1.  G W F Hegel, Logic: Being Part One of the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences (1830), §119, Oxford University Press, 1975, pg 173

  2.  K Marx, F Engels, ‘The Holy Family’, Marx Engels Collected Works, Vol. 4, Progress Publishers, 1975, pg 35

  3.  ibid. pg 36

  4.  Z D Mao, On Contradiction, Foreign Language Press, 1964, pg 11

  5.  ibid. pg 17

  6.  ibid. pg 31

  7.  ibid. pg 32

  8.  ibid.

  9.  Original available here, our translation and emphasis

  10.  The Second Congress of the Communist International: Proceedings, Publishing House of the Communist International: America, 1921, pg 113

  11.  K S Chiang, Soviet Russia in China, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1957, pg 208

  12.  L E Eastman, The Cambridge History of China, Vol. 13, Part 2, Cambridge University Press, 1986, pg 570

  13.  ibid. pg 16

  14.  ibid. pg 24-25

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