Talk:American Physical Society

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[edit] Userbox

I have created a userbox for Wikipedians who are members of the APS:
Just put {{User:UBX/APS}} on your user page. RSRScrooge 00:57, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] So what's the largest?

The intro states that the APS is the second largest organization. So what's the largest? Maury (talk) 20:53, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Fixed, the original linkage was diabolical. Maury (talk) 20:55, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Possible biased and fraudulantly incomplete

The site below states:

"Because this technology challenges the currently popular theories of physics, this lobby [APS] has unjustly branded it as being fraudulent."

http://www.theorionproject.org/en/documents/EPWoutofboxBrief.pdf

DISCUSSION:

It is possible that this article is naive, biased and fraudulently incomplete, by omitting reports that APS has undertaken aggressive strategic smear campaigns to undermine the careers or reputations of patent officials that grant patents for inventions that have been independently verified by other scientific labs to validly work.

The controversy might be grounded in the fact that scientific discoveries can at almost any time out-pace existing human theories (in their current state), because the act of discovery generally precedes the creation of theories to explain them.

The website above gives the impression that APS has attacked inventions and their patent eligibility, if their theory is not yet understood (by those APS defines as the current mainstream).

This might be intellectually retrograde in that truly novel inventions can never be magically grasped by ALL others scientists, particularly those giving dated theoretical (not empirical) objections.

This is why independent confirmation of experimental results is the method through which findings are deemed valid.

Scientific discoveries are not determined by a vote. Agbdf (talk) 07:31, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Please read the relevant Wikipedia policies on Reliable sources, suppression of the one true way, and encyclopedic treatment of fringe opinions. - Eldereft (cont.) 20:40, 2 February 2009 (UTC)