LiamScheff.com — The Conspiracy Realist

About This Site

Scheff’s Paradox of Science: “The less plausible or logical a scientific idea, the more funding it will require.”

 

This is the multi-media website of Liam Scheff, The Conspiracy Realist. Liam is a writer and artist on politics, hidden history, conspiracy, race, class and culture.

 

Journalism:

Liam Scheff is an investigative journalist and researcher into the well-documented, but often suppressed histories that conspire to create the world we live in.

Liam believes in the pro-active, open and transparent examination of the sciences.  His work uncovers the scientific breakthroughs that are being suppressed by the non-competitive church of mainstream ‘scientism.’ In his work, he reveals the medical swindles used to direct populations into dangerous vaccine and drug programs, and focuses on the testable, effective treatments that are being suppressed by greedy drug companies. He also exposes the hidden historical roots of today’s scientific thought, and how scientific myth-making impedes real discovery.

In 2004, Liam broke the NIH Clinical Trial Scandal, the international story of hundreds of New York City orphans used by government agencies and pharmaceutical companies in deadly AIDS drug trials. he was also featured in the 2009 award-winning documentary “House of Numbers.”

Liam has been published by the New York Press, LA Citybeat, LewRockwell.com, Boston’s Weekly Dig, Salvo, Hustler and the now defunct Guerrilla News Network, among others.  He is a contributing investigator at OMSJ.org, and the founder of Reduce the Burden.org. His podcast is “The Myths of Science.” His comics and artwork can be found at this site and on the web.

Liam has been an activist for children and adolescent rights, and informed consent in medicine, and for governmental and corporate transparency (honesty). Growing up in a family of doctors and researchers, medicine was the family language and business, and he became aware of its changing nature, and the often vast distance between the internal conflicts of current research, and the carefully crafted public pronouncements – a distance that has grown immense in the last two decades.

Liam produced a still-in-progress web documentary, “Surviving Cedu” about private schools for “troubled teens,” which find their roots in several cult movements of the 1950s and 60s.

Liam is a vegetarian, (macrobiotic-ish), has traveled widely (though there’s always more to see) and worked and studied in a variety of fields (though there’s always more to learn). His politics are more conservative than neo-lib, more liberal than neo-con, and more independent than either.

Though it troubles him to admit it, Liam is the great-grandson of Milton C. Winternitz, first Jewish Dean of Yale Medical School, who pretended not to be Jewish; the grandson of Jane and Robert Mellors, who helped invent the field of cancer retrovirology, which led to the broken sciences that Liam now fights against.

Radio Journalism and Interviews

 

Video Projects

 

What is Dogma?

The standard dictionary definition goes something like this: “An authoritative principle, belief, or statement of ideas or opinion, especially one considered to be absolutely true.” The trouble with dogma is that it gets in the way of discovery, suppresses inquiry, and stifles growth. It is necessary to pinch, kick and otherwise irritate dogma and dogmatists, to see what’s real in the world.

Are Conspiracies Real?

As real as a handshake. “People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.” – Adam Smith, author of “The Wealth of Nations” (and a truer founder of this country than either Washington or Jefferson).

“The arguments for a conspiracy theory are indeed often dismissed on the grounds that no one conspiracy could possibly control everything. But that is not what this theory sets out to show. [It's not that] modern history is the invention of an esoteric cabal designing events omnipotently to suit its ends. The implicit claim, on the contrary, is that a multitude of conspiracies contend in the night. Clandestinism is not the usage of a handful of rogues, it is a formalized practice of an entire class in which a thousand hands spontaneously join. Conspiracy is the normal continuation of normal politics by normal means.“ - Carl Ogelsby [Read all about it]

The best thing to do with a Dogma is to kick it, before it becomes too entrenched. Or after. Or during. But kicking dogma is the most important thing to reveal where conspiracies – tacit agreements, obfuscations, or outright lies – are at work. I have specialized in rooting out the dogmas and conspiracies in modern science, but as Voltaire knew and Socrates would tell you, the penchant for self-deception, and for governmental, religious, personal and institutional dishonesty is inextricable from the species…

What is ‘Scientism?’

Scientism or science-ism is what happens when questionable theoretical ideas emerging in one of the fields of academic science become entrenched, hardened, bolstered by money, infected with corruption, and foisted on an un-suspecting, un-knowing and overly-trusting public.

Why I Oppose and Fight Scientism:

Medicine, geology, astronomy, physics, biology – these aren’t supposed to be religions. They are believed to be fields of open inquiry and unbridled curiosity, where the only limits to research are the questions interested, curious and serious researchers can ask.

But this is not what is happening in today’s academic, commercial and government-directed science. Inquiry has been shut down if it doesn’t follow narrowly prescribed paths. Logical, ethical questions about the direction of tax-payer-funded sciences are being buried. The careers of those asking hard questions are ruined, their reputations attacked and destroyed, their research ended. Challenges to long-held but broken theories are quietly suppressed, along with the careers of the inspired individuals who dare challenge convention.

Our 18th Century Science Programs

Throughout the biological sciences, and extending into astronomy and geophysics, a hardened, reactive, 18th and 19th Century worldview, replete with illogical superstition and projection, runs the show. Anyone wanting to do research that bucks these centuries-old notions is left out in the cold. What is lost is the important and necessary questioning that leads to understanding.

I write about these fields of inquiry where the suppression is happening, because I believe we must work to be free. And intellectual freedom must be defended, always. I believe that a society cannot be healthy if its intellectuals are enslaved corrupted, out-dated paradigms. These broken but protected theories are allowed to stand, in order to guard the careers and reputations of a few, well-paid bishops of the scientific elite, and those who obediently follow without asking questions, and without adding to human knowledge.

Hypothetical Math and Artificial “Reality” – Science by Computer Simulation

Albert Einstein, who is held as the paragon of a figure of a scientist, said, “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” And he never did stop. In fact, Einstein himself doubted the value of his own Theory of Relativity – and for good reason.

Einstein also protested the sweeping move into mathematical abstraction that is the basis of all modern sciences. “Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself anymore.” But his disciples paid no attention, and the pursuits of medicine, astronomy and even geology have become corrupted by computer-extrapolated conjecture that makes most science fiction look well-reasoned and down-to-earth.

The language of science is no longer that of the “natural philosopher” – as scientists used to be called. It has become a hyper-specialized jargon of theory-speak, possibilities extrapolated from notions based on paper-thin ideas. Where are the real-world observations? They’re excused from the ball. They’d only get in the way of a gravy-train of research dollars on which these new “great truths” rely. But put them to the logic test, and they all fall apart:

  • Was there really a “Big Bang?” Did everything just ‘expand’ from nothing 13 trillion years ago? Or is the universe formed and connected by actively coursing electrical energy, which we can trace, map and see with our own eyes?
  • Did the galaxy really just lump together haphazardly out of dust balls in space, as the 18th Century philosopher Immanuel Kant believed?
  • Does the Earth really run on a series of sub-oceanic “conveyor belts” – an idea that came to light in the ‘new-model factory floor’ early 20th Century – or have we entirely mis-characterized and misunderstood the nature and behavior of planets?
  • Does life, in its staggering complexity, really emerge “by accident?” Do the highly-specialized and formed micro-machines that run our cells occur by “dumb luck,” or is there a history to the genome that goes beyond our current investigation?
  • Does one virus really alter its genome so often and so profoundly that they can be called “wily,” and “hard to pin down,” or have scientists mistaken a thousand unknown and misunderstood cellular processes for one abstract idea?
  • Or is all of this the net effect of three, four and five decades of hypothetical, mathematical modeling gone haywire?

Are these ideas sound, testable, logical, or are they cases of ‘special pleading,’ and magical thinking?

The Name of the Game — Riding the Gravy Train

Questioning the established hierarchy is not allowed in science at present. Honest researchers have to play the delicate game of trying to tell small truths without revealing great lies – they cannot afford to rock the boat. “Peer-review” in its present form only goes to hardened the control of increasingly arcane “specialty sciences” – theoretical biology, physics, geology, genetics – where only those who agree to agree can get their work published. Those who threaten to reveal the failings of their peers, soon find themselves banished from the group, and forced into academic and professional oblivion.

We have been here before in history, when the intellectual elite were hiding truth from the people, and guarding falsehood through force. We need another scientific revolution, such as was had in the 17th and 18th Centuries, to free today’s thinking from the all-too-human habit of settling in to orthodoxy, as happened to the Medieval Church, with all its corruption and excess.

What You Can Do:

Read, think, and pass it on. Don’t accept clichéd ideas or easily-accepted cultural aphorisms as ‘scientific truth.’ Dig deeper. Ask questions. And don’t be satisfied with answers from authority, just because authority says so.

What the Media Must Do:

Journalists must stop parroting press releases from the Academies of Science; they must reject vague and hysteria-producing responses from the scientific authorities. They must do their own reading of the material, and not be cowed by dismissive experts who refuse to answer questions directly and honestly. And you must help them – you must hold science journalists to the standards that you hold the gustiest investigative reporters who crack open political and business scandals. Science is a business, not a religion. It doesn’t benefit from being treated with awe and devotion. It needs you, and the media, to keep it honest, to be its watchmen.

And these ‘experts’ who hide behind their titles to enforce their worldviews or theories, who refuse debate, who engage in witch-hunts of those whose ideas challenge their own – these ‘experts’ must be removed from office.

And the Only People Who Can Do It — Is Us.

It is up to us to become well-versed in the science, to be bold in asking questions, to trust our instincts when we feel we’re being sold a bill of goods, or simply lied to.

When we’re told the sky is falling, the next pandemic is on the way, or ‘a majority of scientists agree’ on something we know instinctively, or through extensive research, is either overstated, more complex than they’re admitting, or simply false – we’ve got to stand up and say so.

I hope you will join me, and support my work in writing about these issues, by adding your voice to the growing chorus:

Science is not a religion. Let’s bring it back from the brink.

- Liam Scheff

Website Map

The Cedu Documentary/Investigation:

  • Surviving Cedu – The Cedu Schools are the seeds of today’s international, multi-million dollar “troubled teen industry,” but the schools themselves remain shrouded in mystery – or buried in the memory hole. Read more about the schools, and the ongoing documentary project.

Cartoons and Comics:

AIDS Investigation:

In 2004, I broke open the NIH clinical trial scandal – government researchers using New York City orphans in clinical trials with combinations of highly toxic, speculative drugs. Read the story below.

Astronomy, Cosmology, Earth Science and Evolution

Big Pharma and Corporate Science:

Politics:

Film:

Submit an Article or Artwork

If you’ve got something original, clearly-stated, interesting, fun, provocative, and reasonably tasteful to say, and can say it well, and want to say it publicly by having it published here, please contact Liam Scheff through the Contact Page, supply a working email, a link to the text or JPEG or artwork you’d like to have published, for consideration. (Not all submitted work will be published. Work will be published at the discretion of the site owner. All publication of your submitted work at this site is for free and gratis, with rights granted to this site for perpetuity to display said work, but with no ownership conferred to this site, its operators or owners).

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