It is true because I said so. It is true because I said so. The truth is out there . The Case Of Cold Fusion Consider the case of cold fusion . Marginalization and suppression , which are indeed tactics employed regularly by institutions threatened by bodies of knowledge they cannot control, are apparently no longer as effective as they once were.
Distance attenuates the voice of the alternative.
There is no conspiracy, no circle of powerful people who draw up lists, mark people for exclusion, enforce exile, punish, attack. The question does, however, rephrase the issue I raised at the beginning of this note. The 'Net can provide us with the content of anything, but can tell us the truth-value of nothing.