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NE OF THE MOST complex and convoluted myths in the world of nutrition is the one called, for want... more NE OF THE MOST complex and convoluted myths in the world of nutrition is the one called, for want of a less complex name, the 'Spinach, Popeye and Iron Decimal Point Error Myth'. I discovered that the myth was started by the nutrition expert, Professor Arnold Bender (the late father of HealthWatch Secretary David Bender) in his inaugural lecture at the University of London in 1972. 1 Spinach is full of Vitamin A. An' tha's what makes hoomans strong an' helty! Popeye (by EC Segar), 1932 "Popeye is as right today with his dietary advice as he was in the last century" Footnote: David Bender tells us that his father, in the inaugural lecture referred to above, attributed the iron story to a Dutch nutritionist, Professor Cornelius den Hartog, now many years deceased. Maybe another story-within-a-story will have passed away with him...

Filozoficzne Aspekty Genezy, 2021

Patrick Matthew’s (1831) prior-publication of the complete hypothesis of natural selection “antic... more Patrick Matthew’s (1831) prior-publication of the complete hypothesis of natural selection “anticipated” Darwin’s Origin of Species by 28 years and Darwin’s and Wallace’s (1858) Linnean papers on the same topic by 27. Founded on the premise that no naturalist read it before 1860, Darwin’s and Wallace’s claims of duel independent discovery of Matthew’s hypothesis have been accepted by the scientific community. However, the central premise upon which those claims have been accepted — that no naturalist read Matthew’s ideas before 1858 — is a proven fallacy, because the famous and hugely influential naturalist Loudon reviewed Matthew’s book in 1832, commenting that it appeared to have something original to say on “the origin of species”. The fact that Loudon was a naturalist has been totally ignored until now. Furthermore, it is newly discovered that after reviewing Matthew’s book he went on to edit the journal that published two of Blyth’s highly influential papers on organic evolutio...

Filozoficzne Aspekty Genezy, 2021

Grzegorz Malec’s “There Is No Darwin’s Greatest Secret”, a review of my book Nullius in Verba: Da... more Grzegorz Malec’s “There Is No Darwin’s Greatest Secret”, a review of my book Nullius in Verba: Darwin’s Greatest Secret, takes one extremely minor finding from my book and, despite his best efforts, manages to disconfirm just one of thirty examples of that minor finding. He then takes that one disconfirmed mere minor example and presents it as evidence that he has disconfirmed all the original major findings in my book. By so doing, his deceptive review goes far beyond the counter-academic deviance of mere cherry picking, it is more a case of gross misrepresentation to the point of de facto fact denial amounting to historic revisionist behaviour.

The widely held criminological 'knowledge' that foot patrol beat policing is ineffective at eithe... more The widely held criminological 'knowledge' that foot patrol beat policing is ineffective at either arresting offenders or reducing crime is substantially supported by research conducted by Clarke and Hough (1984), which makes the claim that: '…a patrolling policeman in London could expect to pass within 100 yards of a burglary in progress, roughly once every eight years but not necessarily catch the burglar or even realise that the crime was taking place.' This claim has been repeated, apparently unquestioningly, as though it is based upon veracious empirical research evidence from policing research in the field, in at least 45 publications, which include scholarly books, peer reviewed journal articles, research reports and police magazines. Clarke's and Hough's claim remains influential to the extent that it is effectively treated as 'criminological commonsense'. In fact, the claim is based upon a pencil and paper mathematical exercise involving three questionable premises. Two of these are disclosed and they are accompanied by a third, which we believe a reader might reasonably infer to be implicit. In this paper, we question all three assumptions and therefore question the veracity of its widespread use in supporting the accepted criminological wisdom about the predestined ineffectiveness of routine police foot patrol.

Find the secret to improve the quality of life by reading this nullius in verba darwin s greatest... more Find the secret to improve the quality of life by reading this nullius in verba darwin s greatest secret. This is a kind of book that you need now. Besides, it can be your favorite book to read after having this book. Do you ask why? Well, this is a book that has different characteristic with others. You may not need to know who the author is, how well-known the work is. As wise word, never judge the words from who speaks, but make the words as your good value to your life.

Internet Journal of Criminology, 2004

Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 2006

The recent U.K. murder of Anthony Walker attests to the lingering antipathy, indeed hostility, to... more The recent U.K. murder of Anthony Walker attests to the lingering antipathy, indeed hostility, toward intimate inter-racial relationships, especially those involving black men and white women. Seventeen-year-old Walker was brutally beaten, then fatally assaulted with an axe to his head – the “provocation” for the attack being this young black man's relationship with his white girlfriend. This article assesses the historical and contemporary images and mythologies that continue to stigmatize inter-racial relationships. Specifically, we look at the representations disseminated through various popular media forms. The article suggests that these mediated constructs condition an environment that facilitates, if not encourages, violence against those in inter-racial relationships.

internetjournalofcriminology.com

This paper presents findings from a systematic analysis of stolen goods markets, based upon schol... more This paper presents findings from a systematic analysis of stolen goods markets, based upon scholarly research and criminological theory, with a toolkit for implementing Sutton's Market Reduction Approach (MRA). The MRA has been implemented in several UK police forces including ...

internetjournalofcriminology.com

This primary research paper presents a review of research that finds that the British Government'... more This primary research paper presents a review of research that finds that the British Government's new social cohesion agenda does hold promise for racial and ethnic prejudice reduction-but that social cohesion policies and practice must include at their core policies to reduce institutional racism in British police services. Analysis of the literature reveals that considerably more research is required to examine the precise nature and dynamics of institutional racism within the police services. There is a need to understand how racism against Black and minority ethnic (BME) police employees, and police racism against BME communities, influences social cohesion. That this is important, given the British government's current social cohesion policy agenda, is patently clear. Considerably more research is about to be undertaken in this area by the authors of this paper and the results will be published in the academic press, disseminated at conferences and presented in training programmes.

No.: ISBN 086252-569 …, 1990

Despite the administrative complexities of the unit (or day) fine system, in which both the serio... more Despite the administrative complexities of the unit (or day) fine system, in which both the seriousness of the offense and the income of the offender are considered, the concept has been considered at various times in England and Wales because it is perceived as a fairer way to assess ...

Information & Communications Technology Law, 2009

Drawing heavily on our earlier work in this area (Perry and Sutton 2006; 2007), this article disc... more Drawing heavily on our earlier work in this area (Perry and Sutton 2006; 2007), this article discusses the issue of Intimate Interracial Relationships (IIRs) within the context of the UK Government's current concerns with social cohesion and provides an overview of the literature on hate and prejudice against those in IIRs in the UK and USA. Following an examination of the official statistics and the numbers of mixed race people in England and Wales, we move on to provide a brief but disturbing glimpse of what it would mean if the BNP's long-term dream of winning a national election were actually to happen in light of their Official Website published proposed policies against IRRs and mixed heritage people.

Priority for discoveries is awarded to those who are first to publish. If a scholar writes claimi... more Priority for discoveries is awarded to those who are first to publish. If a scholar writes claiming to have discovered something or originated a theory that has been earlier published, or presented in public by another who got their first, then the peer review process, professional and public disapproval is relied upon to identify and correct the self-serving irregularity. Thereafter, the pretender to the throne of discovery is expected to retract and apologise. If there is evidence that such a counterfeit originator had prior knowledge of their supposedly independent discovery being first discovered by another, the professional repercussions are likely to be catastrophic. This article is about the devastating Big Data facilitated 2014 discovery that the world's most celebrated and studied natural scientist Charles Darwin, and his lesser known associate Alfred Russel Wallace, more likely than not committed the world's greatest science fraud by apparently plagiarising the entire theory of natural selection from a book written by Patrick Matthew and then claiming to have had no prior-knowledge of it.

Social Sciences

Back in 2004, Google Inc. (Menlo Park, CA, USA) began digitizing full texts of magazines, journal... more Back in 2004, Google Inc. (Menlo Park, CA, USA) began digitizing full texts of magazines, journals, and books dating back centuries. At present, over 25 million books have been scanned and anyone can use the service (currently called Google Books) to search for materials free of charge (including academics of any discipline). All the books have been scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition and stored in its digital database. The present paper describes a very precise six-stage Boolean date-specific research method on Google, referred to as Internet Date Detection (IDD) for short. IDD can be used to examine countless alleged facts and myths in a systematic and verifiable way. Six examples of the IDD method in action are provided (the terms, words, and names 'self-fulfilling prophecy', 'Humpty Dumpty', 'living fossil', 'moral panic', 'boredom', and 'selfish gene') and each of these examples is shown to disconfirm widely accepted expert knowledge belief claims about their history of coinage, conception, and published origin. The paper also notes that Google's autonomous deep learning AI program RankBrain has possibly caused the IDD method to no longer work so well, addresses how it might be recovered, and how such problems might be avoided in the future.

Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 09627250208553450, Mar 13, 2008

British Journal of Criminology, Mar 20, 1998

This paper is primarily concerned urith criminal activities in the publicly accessible areas of t... more This paper is primarily concerned urith criminal activities in the publicly accessible areas of the Internet known as newsgroups. Findings are presented from a small scale exploratory study of two Internet newsgroups and a tentative model of the structure of these newsgroups is proposed. Members of both newsgroups disseminated information and products to those who might wish to commit crimes. One newsgroup focused upon hacking encrypted satellite television services and the other was a locksmithing group with members interested in picking locks and understanding more about safes and other security devices. The Internet is a particularly effective medium for criminal recruitment and the dissemination of criminal techniques. Whilst it is possible that it will bring an increase in crime and create new problems for those concerned with crime control and criminality prevention, it is too early to tell whether the Internet or high technology crime will cause major problems for law and order in the future. However, with the expansion of the Net, various NetCrimes may become high volume crimes. If this happens, existing approaches for dealing with and seeking to understand the reasons for high volume crime will have to be widened and new ones developed to meet the challenge of crimes facilitated by, or taking place in, a radically different environment.

NE OF THE MOST complex and convoluted myths in the world of nutrition is the one called, for want... more NE OF THE MOST complex and convoluted myths in the world of nutrition is the one called, for want of a less complex name, the 'Spinach, Popeye and Iron Decimal Point Error Myth'. I discovered that the myth was started by the nutrition expert, Professor Arnold Bender (the late father of HealthWatch Secretary David Bender) in his inaugural lecture at the University of London in 1972. 1 Spinach is full of Vitamin A. An' tha's what makes hoomans strong an' helty! Popeye (by EC Segar), 1932 "Popeye is as right today with his dietary advice as he was in the last century" Footnote: David Bender tells us that his father, in the inaugural lecture referred to above, attributed the iron story to a Dutch nutritionist, Professor Cornelius den Hartog, now many years deceased. Maybe another story-within-a-story will have passed away with him...

Filozoficzne Aspekty Genezy, 2021

Patrick Matthew’s (1831) prior-publication of the complete hypothesis of natural selection “antic... more Patrick Matthew’s (1831) prior-publication of the complete hypothesis of natural selection “anticipated” Darwin’s Origin of Species by 28 years and Darwin’s and Wallace’s (1858) Linnean papers on the same topic by 27. Founded on the premise that no naturalist read it before 1860, Darwin’s and Wallace’s claims of duel independent discovery of Matthew’s hypothesis have been accepted by the scientific community. However, the central premise upon which those claims have been accepted — that no naturalist read Matthew’s ideas before 1858 — is a proven fallacy, because the famous and hugely influential naturalist Loudon reviewed Matthew’s book in 1832, commenting that it appeared to have something original to say on “the origin of species”. The fact that Loudon was a naturalist has been totally ignored until now. Furthermore, it is newly discovered that after reviewing Matthew’s book he went on to edit the journal that published two of Blyth’s highly influential papers on organic evolutio...

Filozoficzne Aspekty Genezy, 2021

Grzegorz Malec’s “There Is No Darwin’s Greatest Secret”, a review of my book Nullius in Verba: Da... more Grzegorz Malec’s “There Is No Darwin’s Greatest Secret”, a review of my book Nullius in Verba: Darwin’s Greatest Secret, takes one extremely minor finding from my book and, despite his best efforts, manages to disconfirm just one of thirty examples of that minor finding. He then takes that one disconfirmed mere minor example and presents it as evidence that he has disconfirmed all the original major findings in my book. By so doing, his deceptive review goes far beyond the counter-academic deviance of mere cherry picking, it is more a case of gross misrepresentation to the point of de facto fact denial amounting to historic revisionist behaviour.

The widely held criminological 'knowledge' that foot patrol beat policing is ineffective at eithe... more The widely held criminological 'knowledge' that foot patrol beat policing is ineffective at either arresting offenders or reducing crime is substantially supported by research conducted by Clarke and Hough (1984), which makes the claim that: '…a patrolling policeman in London could expect to pass within 100 yards of a burglary in progress, roughly once every eight years but not necessarily catch the burglar or even realise that the crime was taking place.' This claim has been repeated, apparently unquestioningly, as though it is based upon veracious empirical research evidence from policing research in the field, in at least 45 publications, which include scholarly books, peer reviewed journal articles, research reports and police magazines. Clarke's and Hough's claim remains influential to the extent that it is effectively treated as 'criminological commonsense'. In fact, the claim is based upon a pencil and paper mathematical exercise involving three questionable premises. Two of these are disclosed and they are accompanied by a third, which we believe a reader might reasonably infer to be implicit. In this paper, we question all three assumptions and therefore question the veracity of its widespread use in supporting the accepted criminological wisdom about the predestined ineffectiveness of routine police foot patrol.

Find the secret to improve the quality of life by reading this nullius in verba darwin s greatest... more Find the secret to improve the quality of life by reading this nullius in verba darwin s greatest secret. This is a kind of book that you need now. Besides, it can be your favorite book to read after having this book. Do you ask why? Well, this is a book that has different characteristic with others. You may not need to know who the author is, how well-known the work is. As wise word, never judge the words from who speaks, but make the words as your good value to your life.

Internet Journal of Criminology, 2004

Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 2006

The recent U.K. murder of Anthony Walker attests to the lingering antipathy, indeed hostility, to... more The recent U.K. murder of Anthony Walker attests to the lingering antipathy, indeed hostility, toward intimate inter-racial relationships, especially those involving black men and white women. Seventeen-year-old Walker was brutally beaten, then fatally assaulted with an axe to his head – the “provocation” for the attack being this young black man's relationship with his white girlfriend. This article assesses the historical and contemporary images and mythologies that continue to stigmatize inter-racial relationships. Specifically, we look at the representations disseminated through various popular media forms. The article suggests that these mediated constructs condition an environment that facilitates, if not encourages, violence against those in inter-racial relationships.

internetjournalofcriminology.com

This paper presents findings from a systematic analysis of stolen goods markets, based upon schol... more This paper presents findings from a systematic analysis of stolen goods markets, based upon scholarly research and criminological theory, with a toolkit for implementing Sutton's Market Reduction Approach (MRA). The MRA has been implemented in several UK police forces including ...

internetjournalofcriminology.com

This primary research paper presents a review of research that finds that the British Government'... more This primary research paper presents a review of research that finds that the British Government's new social cohesion agenda does hold promise for racial and ethnic prejudice reduction-but that social cohesion policies and practice must include at their core policies to reduce institutional racism in British police services. Analysis of the literature reveals that considerably more research is required to examine the precise nature and dynamics of institutional racism within the police services. There is a need to understand how racism against Black and minority ethnic (BME) police employees, and police racism against BME communities, influences social cohesion. That this is important, given the British government's current social cohesion policy agenda, is patently clear. Considerably more research is about to be undertaken in this area by the authors of this paper and the results will be published in the academic press, disseminated at conferences and presented in training programmes.

No.: ISBN 086252-569 …, 1990

Despite the administrative complexities of the unit (or day) fine system, in which both the serio... more Despite the administrative complexities of the unit (or day) fine system, in which both the seriousness of the offense and the income of the offender are considered, the concept has been considered at various times in England and Wales because it is perceived as a fairer way to assess ...

Information & Communications Technology Law, 2009

Drawing heavily on our earlier work in this area (Perry and Sutton 2006; 2007), this article disc... more Drawing heavily on our earlier work in this area (Perry and Sutton 2006; 2007), this article discusses the issue of Intimate Interracial Relationships (IIRs) within the context of the UK Government's current concerns with social cohesion and provides an overview of the literature on hate and prejudice against those in IIRs in the UK and USA. Following an examination of the official statistics and the numbers of mixed race people in England and Wales, we move on to provide a brief but disturbing glimpse of what it would mean if the BNP's long-term dream of winning a national election were actually to happen in light of their Official Website published proposed policies against IRRs and mixed heritage people.

Priority for discoveries is awarded to those who are first to publish. If a scholar writes claimi... more Priority for discoveries is awarded to those who are first to publish. If a scholar writes claiming to have discovered something or originated a theory that has been earlier published, or presented in public by another who got their first, then the peer review process, professional and public disapproval is relied upon to identify and correct the self-serving irregularity. Thereafter, the pretender to the throne of discovery is expected to retract and apologise. If there is evidence that such a counterfeit originator had prior knowledge of their supposedly independent discovery being first discovered by another, the professional repercussions are likely to be catastrophic. This article is about the devastating Big Data facilitated 2014 discovery that the world's most celebrated and studied natural scientist Charles Darwin, and his lesser known associate Alfred Russel Wallace, more likely than not committed the world's greatest science fraud by apparently plagiarising the entire theory of natural selection from a book written by Patrick Matthew and then claiming to have had no prior-knowledge of it.

Social Sciences

Back in 2004, Google Inc. (Menlo Park, CA, USA) began digitizing full texts of magazines, journal... more Back in 2004, Google Inc. (Menlo Park, CA, USA) began digitizing full texts of magazines, journals, and books dating back centuries. At present, over 25 million books have been scanned and anyone can use the service (currently called Google Books) to search for materials free of charge (including academics of any discipline). All the books have been scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition and stored in its digital database. The present paper describes a very precise six-stage Boolean date-specific research method on Google, referred to as Internet Date Detection (IDD) for short. IDD can be used to examine countless alleged facts and myths in a systematic and verifiable way. Six examples of the IDD method in action are provided (the terms, words, and names 'self-fulfilling prophecy', 'Humpty Dumpty', 'living fossil', 'moral panic', 'boredom', and 'selfish gene') and each of these examples is shown to disconfirm widely accepted expert knowledge belief claims about their history of coinage, conception, and published origin. The paper also notes that Google's autonomous deep learning AI program RankBrain has possibly caused the IDD method to no longer work so well, addresses how it might be recovered, and how such problems might be avoided in the future.

Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 09627250208553450, Mar 13, 2008

British Journal of Criminology, Mar 20, 1998

This paper is primarily concerned urith criminal activities in the publicly accessible areas of t... more This paper is primarily concerned urith criminal activities in the publicly accessible areas of the Internet known as newsgroups. Findings are presented from a small scale exploratory study of two Internet newsgroups and a tentative model of the structure of these newsgroups is proposed. Members of both newsgroups disseminated information and products to those who might wish to commit crimes. One newsgroup focused upon hacking encrypted satellite television services and the other was a locksmithing group with members interested in picking locks and understanding more about safes and other security devices. The Internet is a particularly effective medium for criminal recruitment and the dissemination of criminal techniques. Whilst it is possible that it will bring an increase in crime and create new problems for those concerned with crime control and criminality prevention, it is too early to tell whether the Internet or high technology crime will cause major problems for law and order in the future. However, with the expansion of the Net, various NetCrimes may become high volume crimes. If this happens, existing approaches for dealing with and seeking to understand the reasons for high volume crime will have to be widened and new ones developed to meet the challenge of crimes facilitated by, or taking place in, a radically different environment.