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Forbidden Science: From Ancient Technologies to Free Energy

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I was expecting a book detailing actual working science that had been suppressed. However, I found something quite different.

Chapter 1: According to the author, two men, Fleischmann and Pons, claimed to discover how to use palladium to generate something called "cold fusion". The author makes it very clear that a particular critic, named Parks, hates the idea of cold fusion. The proof that cold fusion works is that this critic quotes someone who made a mathematical error somewhere and, apparently, he can't even do basic science. Wow! I am now totally convinced that cold fusion actually works! Not. Question: What does slinging mud at an alleged critic have to do with proving that cold fusion actually works? Where are the results that cold fusion actually works? Sadly, this book doesn't have the answer.

While about half of the ideas in this book were new to me, I have encountered many other ideas in, sometimes significantly, different contexts with a credible source and a totally different explanation. While there are some valid things that will just never stand up to the deep scrutiny of mainstream science, if any of the ideas in this book have actual validity in reality, the authors did not do any of them justice. Wishful thinking, finding connections where there are none, warping existing theories and ideas to fit a particular viewpoint, conspiracy theories, photographs of unknown origins with unknown subject matter and fictional descriptions to support a claim, pointing fingers and slinging mud at detractors does not make for proof of anything.

Conclusion: If you want to just believe wildly implausible and totally unsupported claims without looking for actual proof, then this book is for you. If you want to find support of potentially valid ideas, natural processes, conspiracies, etc, then skip this book as it doesn't contain any them.

The first part of the book is mainly the author defending what most call alternative science, against mainstream scientists. It got a little off subject as the author named scientists that attack other scientists that have not accepted as mainstream science. I was losing interest at first, thinking this whole book would be nothing more than one arguement after the other against scientists that go out of their way to destroy people that dont fit into mainstream scientific research and discovery.
However, I understand why the author did this. I have seen too many scientists in all fields have their careers ruined over something they present that doesnt fit into the model of what is deemed acceptable. It has happened to countless archeologists that come forward with proof that civilization is older than the accepted model. And it goes on every day in every other field of scientific research and discovery.

As the book went on it got better. I like how the author gave background otherwise unknown to me, about scientists and people, and their discoveries.

Yet, when I got to chapter 24 I was thrown for a loop. Here the author presents an OBGYN talking about cardiology treatments. First red flag. I dont know how old the research is he is refering to. But chelation therapy has been proven NOT to be a good way to treat clogged vessels.
I let a couple of the cardiologists I work with read this chapter. One said, "this guy is dangerous", refering to the OBGYN.
EDTA, though highly toxic to humans is good for a number of things...industrial cleaning, as an oxidizing agent in photography, complexation of heavy metals during chlorine-free bleaching; stabilization of hydrogen peroxide in the paper industry, added into the borehole to inhibit mineral precipitation in the oilfield industry...get my point? Transporting a heart for transplant in it and using it on live patients to clear vessels-two different animals.

Another...page 92 has a picture of a Yogi levitating. I have seen this so many times. The "Yogi" hides the pole and platform on which he sits with his robes.

Ok, there are some red flags here. But dont let that put you off from buying this book! It is a good book. I have thoroughly enjoyed reading it and refer back to it while in debate and conversation with friends. It has some wonderful chapters on physics and spiritualism. In reading this book, I have been led to well over 30 other resources and books I have added to my library.

I own Forbidden Science/History and Religion. All have their weaknesses. But the good stuff far outweighs the questionable. It has served its purpose in my life. That being, THINK! QUESTION! And dont ever accept what someone else says is truth just because they have a degree.

If you are on the fence regarding purchasing this book or not...BUY IT! You will definatley find something worth your while within its covers.

Forbidden Science: From Ancient Technologies to Free Energy
Edited by J. Douglas Kenyon
ISBN 1-59143-082-8 (Bear & Company, 2008)

We are finally waking up to how new information is suppressed and censored by powerful and entrenched organizations. This is due in part to our tendency to let in only the new information that supports previously held beliefs. In the academic realm it has more of a financial purpose, which is to maintain grants and funding for research projects. So this book is for the rest of us, who live in the reality that we are living through the greatest transformation in recorded history. We are coming to realize that consciousness not only affects matter but creates it, not the other way around, which is the traditional Newtonian view. Read what 19 cutting-edge scientists have to say about this and other "out of the box" discoveries that are being suppressed.

Rahasya Poe, Lotus Guide magazine
To Believe Or Not To Believe: The Social and Neurological Consequences of Belief Systems

I bought the book as a gift. My father really loved it. He finished it in like 5 days!!!!!! I would definitely recommend it just based on his talks about it.

This unusual topic lived up to its name. It's an excellent book for science buffs like my son-in-law ( a science teacher) who was the book recipient.

Where do I start? This book has little or nothing to do with science. It's main focus is on conspiracy theories and folklore.

In the first several essays, the authors spend the whole chapter slandering other scientists who don't support their conclusions (mainly because there is no evidence whatsoever to support their claims), and trying to build up evidence of a conspiracy by the scientific community to suppress their ideas and beliefs. It's like noted astronomer Carl Sagan said: "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" and the evidence just isn't there.

In one essay on global catastrophes, the author states right off the bat that he doesn't believe in global warning, although nearly every educated person in the world has had it proven to them beyond a shadow of a doubt that it does exist. His explanation of the increasing worsening weather is the Japanese Mob and their use of Scalar Electrodynamics ray guns they are using against America to influence the weather. Is he serious? The Japanese Mob? Ray guns? He only points out tragedies that happen elsewhere but never mentions the many catastrophes that happen in Japan's own backyard of Indonesia. And what about the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan? Did they use it against themselves? I guess that was the final nail in the coffin for his hypothesis.

In another essay, the author tries to resurrect the sunken continent of Atlantis to explain how pre-European and Egyptian influences and plants came to pre-America via Atlantis. The Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl proved in the 1950's that early man could easily have sailed from America to Polynesia on balsa log rafts (Kon Tiki) or reached America from the mid-east on papyrus boats (The RA Expeditions) or reed boats (The Tigris Expedition). There was no need for a midway stop-off point in the Atlantic at a legendary Atlantis to make the trip possible.

In some of the essays quotes are given which make it sound as if someone of great authority agrees with and substantiates the authors conclusions. But the persons who made these quotes are never given. Are we to conclude that the quotes come from the author himself? That's the only conclusion I can come to. Most all of the references come from the same source: Atlantis Rising Magazine, of which the editor of the book, J. Douglas Kenyan, also happens to be the editor of. So in other words, if you want more background information, you are directed to their magazine and their opinions instead of getting an honest evaluation by other researchers.

I could go on but I think you've got the idea by now. In conclusion, I would say that if someone gave you this book free, and you were desperate for something to read, then MAYBE you could give it a glance. But to pay good money for this book, I'd advise against it. On second thought, I wouldn't even read it if it was free.

There a reviewer who commented on the chapter on chelation to 2 cardiologists and the cardiologists said chelation is "dangerous". Doctors should not give an opinion on something they know nothing about. Even the reviewer admitted his "ignorance" of the chelation subject, stating that "he did not know how old chelation treatement is." Well, here's the answer, it's over 50 years old! Chelation was started in the 1950s, and it was and still is FDA approved for lead poisoning. Then a funny thing happened in the 1950s: two workers got exposed to lead in their workplace and got chelation treatment for lead poisoning. The doctors were amazed that the EDTA, which is used in chelation treatment, cleaned out every artery of the entire body! They had the arteries of a 20 year old! Then since the 1970s, some doctors tried giving patients chelation therapy who did not want triple bypass surgery. A small number of doctors today are still today giving patients chelation treatment via an IV, and their names are listed in a book called "Toxic Metal Syndrome" by Casdorph and Walker. Insurance does not cover chelation unless it's used for lead poisoning. So getting IV based EDTA chelation is rather expensive. Today you can get cheap oral chelation treatment using an oral chelation product from [...] and let's get back to those two cardiologists who said chelation was "dangerous". Chelation treatment is only dangerous to THE POCKETBOOKS OF THE CARDIOLOGISTS, because if everyone in the entire country got EDTA chelation treatment, THEY WOULD GO BROKE, and go on welfare. By the way, triple bypass surgery only lasts about 10 to 12 years, and then when the artery clogs up again, you have to go through the operation again. So I suggest you buy this book, it has very valuable information.

If you have an open mind, love occult science, and don't get weighed down by the scientific establishment, then this book is for you. I've read all three of the Forbidden books and love them all.

This book is a bible for pseudo scientists, conspiracy freaks, and people who love to play with their paranoia.

I'm especially fond of Paul LaViolette's theories of massive technology that eclipses anything previously laid out as possible.

42 entertaining stories from Kenyon's "Atlantis Rising" publication that challenge conventional science.

Do they all reflect what's "true"? Doubtful. Do some of them? IMO, quite likely.

I'd have given this book a 5 rating, but was annoyed that none of the articles had a DATE assigned. Would be nice to know when they were originally published so you could have a frame of reference as to what's been done since then.

If you have an open mind, you'll enjoy this book.
If you don't, save your money.