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- Natural_Philosophy_Alliance abstract "The Natural Philosophy Alliance, or NPA, is an alliance of people who believe that some mainstream ideas in physics and cosmology, including relativity, quantum theory, the big bang, and plate tectonics, are irredeemably flawed. According to their web site "The mainstream believes that NPA members do not understand or study mainstream [science]", but that "this could not be further from the truth". The NPA claims that its members "have studied very thoroughly mainstream science", indeed "knowing it [mainstream science] better than the mainstream".The NPA was founded in 1994 by the historian John E. Chappell Jr., and as of February 23, 2014 it had 822 members, of which 132 were dues-paying members. The Alliance hosts a database where authors can post ideas that may have trouble being accepted in mainstream scientific journals. As of mid 2013, this database contains 289 links to documents and 2134 abstracts. The Alliance holds yearly conferences with published proceedings, which provide a forum for those with ideas that are rejected by mainstream conferences. For example, NPA provides a central meeting place for those who oppose Einstein's theory of relativity.The journalist Margaret Wertheim, herself a member of the NPA speculates that much of the interest in this area is a response to the inaccessibility of the conventional views, due to their heavy mathematical content and abstract ideas. She compares NPA with the revolt of Martin Luther against the Catholic church.However, John Horgan reports that "When Wertheim attended an NPA meeting... it reminded her of an experiment in which three schizophrenic patients, each of whom believed he was Christ, were introduced to each other... Each concluded that the others were crazy. Watching presenters at the NPA meeting, Wertheim comments, was like 'watching thirty Jesus Christs.'”".
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- Natural_Philosophy_Alliance comment "The Natural Philosophy Alliance, or NPA, is an alliance of people who believe that some mainstream ideas in physics and cosmology, including relativity, quantum theory, the big bang, and plate tectonics, are irredeemably flawed. According to their web site "The mainstream believes that NPA members do not understand or study mainstream [science]", but that "this could not be further from the truth".".
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