Skeptic: The Physicist and the Abalone Diver; October 2002; Scientific American Magazine; by Michael Shermer; 1 Page(s)

Consider the following quotes, written by authors of recently self-published books purporting to revolutionize science: "This book is the culmination of nearly twenty years of work that I have done to develop that new kind of science. I had never expected it would take anything like as long, but I have discovered vastly more than I ever thought possible, and in fact what I have done now touches almost every existing area of science, and quite a bit besides.... I have come to view [my discovery] as one of the more important single discoveries in the whole history of theoretical science."

"The development of this work has been a completely solitary effort during the past thirty years. As you will realize as you read through this book, these ideas had to be developed by an outsider. They are such a complete reversal of contemporary thinking that it would have been very difficult for any one part of this integrated theoretical system to be developed within the rigid structure of institutional science."