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Lone voices special: Watch out for the UFOs

6 December 2006

EVERY year I receive a large number of unsolicited, self-published books and articles about science by authors I have neither met nor heard of, and whose names do not appear in standard directories of scientists. They have found a flaw in Einstein’s special theory of relativity, discovered a way to tap the zero-point energy of the universe, or exposed a government cover-up of the truth about UFOs.If they are right, the world needs to know – and it is possible that they could be. We have to be prepared to rewrite the textbooks.

So do I struggle through all their work…

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