Brian J. Ford on Nonscience

 Brain J. Ford on the Sonia Poulton show in January 2022

When I contacted Professor Brian Ford to let him know that my "Selby cited Matthew discovery" research had twice been plagiarised in the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society it was me to who Brian responded with what he says in the above the video. 

"If you’re in the public eye and you make an impression, people are going to steal your work. It's actually the ultimate compliment. If in science you haven't been plagiarised, it's because you haven't done anything decent. The minute you do, some miserable two-faced, dishonest bastard is going to come along and steal your work and claim it's his own."

In this programme Professor Brian Ford, on a broadcast show hosted by Sonia Poulton and Sean Ward provides us with the perfect quote on plagiarism. It should become a renowned quote, just so long as it is not plagiarised and attributed to another person. To try to prevent that happening I have added this video and his words on plagiarism to his page on PatrickMatthew.com - a  website all about the worlds greatest science fraud by plagiarism. If you read Brian's book "Nonscience" you will find quite a bit about plagiarism, including Darwin's plagiarism of Patrick Matthew. 

Incidentally, an "expert" in Latin and etymology will tell you "The word plagiarism has a curious history. It is derived from the Latin plagiarius—literally, a kidnapper who ensnares children or slaves in a plaga (net)."  

Good grief! Were such people with their nets just like the evil Child Catcher form Chitty Chitty Bang Bang? 

Someone like me can tell you that I found that Latin route of plagiarism information on the Internet and, having studied the topic just a bit, I know it's correct. What does this tell us about experts? Either way, if I ever definitely need heart or brain surgery for an expertly verifiable fact, I think I will go to an "expert" to perform the surgery rather than ask Brian to do it on his kitchen table. That said, an "expert" surgeon wanted to give my wife an operation to remove fibroids, that carried a 50% chance of rendering her "sterile" so she could increase her chances of conceiving a child. As a non-expert on surgery I thought about it and said we would defer our decision and try to conceive for another year. No surgery was required (with no 50:50 chance of it going wrong and additional risks of death from the anaesthetic etc etc). We now have a daughter. Conclusion = Brian has a point, but his book is satirical and so everything in it should not be taken literally. Reality is often (not always) more nuanced than this programme lets on. But then that's entertainment folks! So being most entertaining carries risks. I don't know, perhaps we should ask Donald Trump and Boris Johnson about that one? But would they tell us the truth? And if they didn't, would their millions of adoring fans care?

Charles Darwin, Patrick Matthew, Google, the IDD Method and Darwin's and Wallace's Proven Plagiarism

Professor Griffiths and I have published on the IDD research method in an expert peer reviewed academic journal (here), noting that Google no longer works very well at unearthing hidden publications. We suspect the diminishment is caused by Google's new  autonomous, deep learning, artificial intelligence, Rank Brain, program that now runs its search engine.

Amusingly, I used the IDD method years ago to do better than Google's employees at finding the orignal Google (here).

The paradigm changing facts unearthed in Nullius in Verba: Darwin's greatest secret - disproving the  prior scientific establishment touted 'knowledge' that no naturalist/no one known to Darwin and his associates and influencers, or known Wallace and his associates and influencers, had read Matthew's prior published theory before they replicated it and claimed it as their own independent conceptions - would perhaps have lain buried for centuries had I not by chance developed the IDD method between 2009  and 2013. If I had not done it then, no one would be able to find what I found today. There was a small window of opportunity - when Google was actually committed to its massive Library Project - that I was fortuitously able to exploit, doing the right research at the right time. Today, that window has been closed by Google.

Brian J Ford on Darwin's Plagiarism and Fashionistic Fashionism

The eminent scientist professor Brian J. Ford and I have both been plagiarized. Brian told me of his worst experience in a personal email communication, so I will not reveal it here. I expect he will share it with the world in his own time. In my case, I have been plagiarized a few times. Most recently my unique work was plagiarized by "Darwin Lad" Dr Joachim L Dagg in the Linnean journal (the very same journal that allowed Darwin and Wallace to plagiarize Patrick Matthew in 1858!).  Dagg - who has cyber-stalked me for years - and written two nonsense reviews of my book Nullius in Verba: Darwin's greatest secret - knows I discovered it yet still passed off my Selby cited Matthew in 1842 orignal discovery as though he had discovered it for himself (facts here)! 

Brian Ford has written two articles on Darwin's lack of originality on the the theory of evolution by natural selection (here and here). Most importantly, in his 1971 book 'Nonscience' Professor Ford writes (p. 142) on how some scientists are famous not for their genuine originality but for hoodwinking the world they were genius originators simply because they published on a bombshell breakthrough at the most timely - "what Ford names Fashonistic" - time: 

'Charles Darwin used much the same kind of ploy too, by writing his thesis at exactly the most Fashionistic time, when everyone was discussing it. He wasn't the first to propose his particular interpretation, of course, but his use of Fashionism and the clothing of the argument in detailed observations of animals in general made the whole project an obvious winner." 

What Professor Ford does not write, but which is perfect support for his 'Fashionism' argument is what Matthew wrote to Darwin and the entire world in a published open letter of  May 12th 1860 in the Gardeners Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette (p 433): that his work was read and cited but that many feared to cite it - including an eminent professor - and that it had been brute censored (see Sutton 2017 p. 111 for the fully referenced details). In that and in an earlier published letter of April 1860 Matthew clearly told Darwin and the world that the world was not ready for his theory in 1831 when it first appeared in print.

Poor scholarship by pretending secondary sources are primary and associated brute censorship by failure to cite original sources

Ian Hardie and his wife discovered that many authors, including Jim Dempster have mistranscribed a letter from Darwin to Matthew. Tipped off by an email from Ian on 9th November 2019, I verified his finding and found that The Darwin Correspondence project (archived here) and others have not only mistranscribed the letter sent from Darwin to Matthew to have it that Darwin writes: "Your parable of the Damascus woman is quite new to me & very striking." In fact, we can see from the photograph of the letter (as opposed to replicating citations and then pretending the words copied come from visiting the National Library of Scotland) Darwin actually wrote: "Your parable of the Damascus Woman is quite new to me and my thinking."

My further research after being tipped off by Ian Hardie found the source of what we might call the "striking error" that others have copied without due citation to him is W. T. Calman (1912, pp. 451- 457) who was shown the three letters on or before 1912 by Matthew's daughter Euphemia. Claman (1912 p. 451) wrote that the letters had never before been published. Matthew and Darwin scholars should note that the above letter is one of the three later originally found by Ian Hardie and Min Hunter at the home of John Matthew after his death. They set up the Patrick Matthew Trust, which employed Jim Dempster to research and write on this topic.

Using a secondary transcribed source such as Calman's published transcription of 1912 yet citing the material as though it is the primary source whist ignorantly replicating a transcription error unique to the secondary source is one of the most simple forms of poor scholarship counting as academic misconduct by plagiarism. This mistranscription and wrong attribution issue on the Darwin Correspondence website and elsewhere in the literature on Darwin and Matthew is just one more ironic example of the many issues of dreadful scholarship plagiarism that that run through the so called "Darwin industry" like hidden woodworm in an antique.

By way of another ironic example of even worse academic misconduct by plagiarism we can see Dagg's disgraceful plagiarism in the Linnean Journal, in a paper that desperately tries to argue - through what is arguably the most pitiful systematic failure to cite the most relevant compelling newly published evidence of it - against Darwin’s plagiarism. Dagg plagiarised, by failure to cite me as the discoverer even though he knew I discovered it, my original unearthing in 2013 (and first published in 2014 and then in two peer reviewed papers, Sutton 2014 and 2015) that Selby (editor of the journal that published Wallace's 1855 Sarawak paper, which Darwin read pre-1858) cited Matthew's 1831 book and the original ideas in it years before Darwin and Wallace wrote on the topic. See all the fully referenced and evidenced details here of Dagg's ironic plagiarism (perhaps the most ironic example of plagiarism in history?) of my original research, which he had prior read and commented upon at length elsewhere on the Internet. 

The important issue to note here is that the Darwin Correspondence Project and others all one way or another appear to have copied/replicated Caimen's and other's subsequent publication of the mistranscription, but essentially pretended they got the text from the original letters National Library of Scotland or from them as an orignal source in someway being elsewhere, which scholars in the know can prove is impossible. I think this is most ironic given the issue at the heart of this Matthew and Darwin topic being one of plagiarism and failure to truthfully reference sources. Just as Darwin did not want to cite Matthew the dangerous radical Chartist leader, Christian god and priest and upper-class mocking atheist, it appears that these Darwin Industry members have behaved similarly. Indeed, John van Wyhe a major force behind the Darwin Correspondence Project resigned from the editorial board of the Polish journal that published my 2015 article on the independently verifiable evidence of Darwin's plagiarism. He then emailed a Scottish journalist to claim that the new and independently verifiable evidence of who I discovered did read and cite the book containing Matthew's prior published theory is nothing more than silly. See the detailed facts of that story here.

Note: For the historical record, I have a copy of van Wyhe's Sutton's research on Darwin and Matthew is a "conspiracy theory' email that he sent to a Scottish journalist. But for reasons of his copyright, I cannot legally publish it. 

Of course, again with great irony, in reality, conspiracy theories are those that tautologically claim there is conspiracy because people are conspiring, because the evidence of that conspiracy is not available, because there has been a cover-up of it. That most certainly is not the case in this story, as the independently verifiable published and expertly peer reviewed facts prove.

Proper academics interested in how the so-called "scientific establishment" seeks to silence those who bust much loved myths with new facts may care to note that Dr Mike Weale (then Reader in Statistical Genetics at Kings College London - the owner of the "Patrick Matthew Project" website wrote an email in 2016 to the VC of Nottingham Trent University - where I then worked before my retirement in 2018 as Reader in Criminology in a vicious attempt to have me disciplined or perhaps even sacked for what I wrote about van Wyhe's dreadful behaviour. Weale failed, of course, because an independent investigation by a Professor of Law and by HR at the university exonerated me of misconduct and pointed out Weal's disingenuity. Again, for the historical record, I have Weal's ludicrous, malicious, email to the VC Edward Peck and a copy of the findings of the investigation that exonerate me of academic misconduct. 

Scholars of plagiarism and poor scholarship know that offenders are caught out when they copy mistranscribed text from secondary sources whist citing the primary source as where they got it. By comparing a photographic image of his original letter to his mother with the version of it he transcribed in his memoirs, I originally proved that Wallace slyly lied in his autobiography to cover up the fact he bragged to his mother that Darwin and his cronies were going to pay him for co-operating in essentially pretending that he and Darwin jointly but independently discovered Matthew's prior published theory independently of its prior published source in Matthew’s 1831 book. Get the independently verifiable facts here.

Furthermore, I conducted an experiment that proved official Wikipedia editors of the Wikipedia page on Patrick Matthew are systematically deleting my newly unearthed facts about who read and reviewed and sought to brute censor so much as private rumination on Matthew's breakthrough years before Darwin or Wallace penned a word on the topic (see the results here).

I suspect the Darwinites running the Darwin Correspondence Project will seek next to slyly hide the plagiarism of Calman's erroneous 1912 miss-transcription by editing the page with reference to the correct content of the original letter on the web page of PatrickMatthew.com, yet fail to admit it. But they cannot hide what they did. Because their original page is now archived for all to see, here:  http://archive.is/IGEq3

Liars, plagiarists and malicious fact deniers always come undone in the end when facts follow their age old habit of burrowing to the surface. Then they get their rightful place in history. The facts and their deniers that is. 

The Great Dog Bottom Swap Theft!

On plagiarism of anonymous sources

On plagiarism

The children's book "The Great Dog Bottom Swap" essentially plagiarizes (because it fails to reference it in any way) an piece of anonymous Australian Bush poetry entitled "The Dog's Meeting" pic.twitter.com/FfFHgpLwrs

— Dr Mike Sutton (@Dysology) September 19, 2019

Some attribute the orignal poem to the Australian Henry Lawson (c1910).

Here is my Amazon book review of The Great Dog Bottom Swap 
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Dr. Sutton, iyo, would Matthews have written the same sorts of things as CRD in "Origin", supposing CRD had not "beaten him to it"?

— The Beagler (@DarwinsWeasel) September 20, 2019

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(1) Looking at your question the right way around according to linear time, without Darwin having an 1840s (private essay) & 1859 virgin conception miracle of Matthew's 1831 prior published theory, his essential four words term for it "process of natural selection" which.... (2) https://t.co/5XJ0EaF0q8

— Dr Mike Sutton (@Dysology) September 20, 2019

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(3) Darwin needed to rip off Matthew's original breakthrough concept and his original creative examples used to explain it. Analogously, Darwin was as dependent on plagiarizing Matthew as the author of The Great Dog Bottom Swap needed to plagiarize an anonymously authored poem pic.twitter.com/ahiysdko0D

— Dr Mike Sutton (@Dysology) September 20, 2019

On the plagiarism of facts by those who fell for the dysology they debunk

Email from crime prevention practitioner expert in USA. Quoted my text below and wrote: "I still find one of the most hilarious, and correct, comments I've read in criminology in the past years is yours from your RAT article. Funniest thing I've read :-) " https://t.co/aR3151ssfD pic.twitter.com/A7xki5z1h5

— Dr Mike Sutton (@Criminotweet) April 14, 2019

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Trouble is, original discovery of flaw, revealed in my article will be plagiarised by those credulous enough to fall for it. But I won't be cited. Same thing happened recently with my original discovery that other naturalists DID prior cite Patrick Matthew https://t.co/tvgtt3FThh https://t.co/sHBN3vOYyr

— Dr Mike Sutton (@Criminotweet) April 14, 2019

Antixaxxers such as the famous plagiarist Alfred Russel Wallace and other pillocks

We know that Alfred Wallace, like Charles Darwin (1858/59), committed the world's greatest science fraud by plagiarising Patrick Matthew's (1831) prior published theory of evolution by natural selection years after their friends, correspondents, editors and influencer's influencers had cited it in the historic literature record (see the fully referenced independently verifiable facts of that matter: Here, here and here). Alfred Wallace also paved the way for today's anti-vaccination movement (see the facts here). What a prat! No really, Wallace was. The utter pillock not only claimed to have conceived Matthew's prior published theory (which we newly know - thanks to my original research - Selby, the editor of Wallace's famous Sarawak paper, read and prior-cited) during the world's only stupidly claimed bout of cognitive enhancing malarial fever, he also ardently believed in ghosts and the silly ghost table-turning claims of parlour room mediums (see the facts here).

Today, to its eternal shame, the Linnean Journal - which published Darwin's and Wallace's first act of joint plagiarism of Matthew's theory in 1858 - published a desperately daft-as-a-brush paper by someone called Dagg, which blatantly plagiarised my Selby cited Matthew discovery by failing to cite me as its discoverer. Dagg then bragged to the obscene lonely and obsessed weirdo harassing stalker Julian Derry about failing to cite me (read all the verifiable fully referenced facts here). Doesn't look like a great advert for the Linnean Society and its journal does it. Prattism appears to be contagious. Maybe we need to work harder to discover an efficacious inoculation against it.

Likely hub for transmission of viruses flu & measles. The consequences of quackery @EdzardErnst @HealthWatch123 @QuackDetector

Will Donald Trump and his pal Wakefield be attending?
1. https://t.co/V2XSYmloUN

Alfred Wallace worshipers? @BiolJLinnSoc 2. https://t.co/3RGaiHFeXJ pic.twitter.com/Q1UX6CS0y9

— Dr Mike Sutton (@Criminotweet) February 7, 2019

Got 'Em!

First three chapters are free. See how I did it! Detect plagiarizing science fraudsters: http://t.co/53W5vCliKL … pic.twitter.com/3fHMnwNnwN
— Dr Mike Sutton (@Criminotweet) March 27, 2015