References

References for Suppression Stories by Brian Martin (Wollongong: Fund for Intellectual Dissent, 1997), pages 162-167.

 
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2 Suppression: it's everywhere

P. H. Springell, "For the freedom to comment by scientists," Arena, No. 44, 45, 1976, pp. 28-33.

Brian Martin, "Academics and the environment: a critique of the Australian National University's Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies," Ecologist, Vol. 7, No. 6, July 1977, pp. 224-232.

Cedric Belfrage, The American Inquisition 1945-1960 (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1973).

David Caute, The Great Fear: The Anti-Communist Purge under Truman and Eisenhower (London: Secker and Warburg, 1978).

Lionel S. Lewis, Scaling the Ivory Tower: Merit and its Limits in Academic Careers (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975).

Joseph Haberer, Politics and the Community of Science (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1969).

C. Wright Mills, Power, Politics and People: The Collected Essays of C. Wright Mills (ed. Irving Louis Horowitz) (New York: Oxford University Press, 1963), p. 297.

Richard Routley and Val Plumwood, "The 'Fight for the Forests' affair," in Brian Martin, C. M. Ann Baker, Clyde Manwell and Cedric Pugh (eds.), Intellectual Suppression: Australian Case Histories, Analysis and Responses (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1986), pp. 70-73.

Brian Martin, "The scientific straightjacket: the power structure of science and the suppression of environmental scholarship," Ecologist, Vol. 11, No. 1, January-February 1981, pp. 33-43.

 

3 Power against dissent

Brian Martin, "Nuclear suppression," Science and Public Policy, Vol. 13, No. 6, December 1986, pp. 312-320.

G. L. Waldbott, A Struggle with Titans (New York: Carlton Press, 1965).

Brian Martin, Scientific Knowledge in Controversy: The Social Dynamics of the Fluoridation Debate (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991).

Brian Martin, "Critics of pesticides: whistleblowing or suppression of dissent?" Philosophy and Social Action, Vol. 22, No. 3, July-September 1996, pp. 33-55.

Brian Martin, "Nuclear winter: science and politics," Science and Public Policy, Vol. 15, No. 5, October 1988, pp. 321-334.

 

4 It's defamatory!

Brian Martin, Nuclear Knights (Canberra: Rupert Public Interest Movement, 1980).

Brian Martin, "The naked experts," Ecologist, Vol. 12, No. 4, July-August 1982, pp. 149-157, focussing on Leslie Kemeny.

David Bowman, "The story of a review and its $180,000 consequence," Australian Society, Vol. 2, No. 6, 1 July 1983, pp. 28-30, on Lennard Bickel's defamation case.

Brian Martin, "Science policy: dissent and its difficulties," Philosophy and Social Action, Vol. 12, No. 1, January-March 1986, pp. 5-23, on nuclear power, fluoridation and terrorism cases.

Penelope Canan and George W. Pring, "Strategic lawsuits against public participation," Social Problems, Vol. 35, No. 5, December 1988, pp. 506-519.

 

5 Peer review as scholarly conformity

Clyde Manwell, "Peer review: a case history from the Australian Research Grants Committee," Search, Vol. 10, No. 3, March 1979, pp. 81-86.

Irwin D. J. Bross, Scientific Strategies to Save Your Life (New York: Marcel Dekker, 1981), pp. 217-222, on the Mancuso case.

D. F. Horrobin, "Referees and research administrators: barriers to scientific research?" British Medical Journal, Vol. 2, 27 April 1974, pp. 216-218.

David F. Horrobin, "The philosophical basis of peer review and the suppression of innovation," Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 263, No. 10, 9 March 1990, pp. 1438-1441.

Brian Martin, "Peer review and the origin of AIDS - a case study in rejected ideas," BioScience, Vol. 43, No. 9, October 1993, pp. 624-627.

Julian Cribb, The White Death (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1996), on polio vaccines and the origin of AIDS.

 

6 "Proper channels" just don't work

Brian Martin, "Disruption and due process: the dismissal of Dr Spautz from the University of Newcastle," Vestes: Journal of the Federation of Australian University Staff Associations, Vol. 26, No. 1, 1983, pp. 3-9.

Brian Martin, "Plagiarism and responsibility," Journal of Tertiary Educational Administration, Vol. 6, No. 2, October 1984, pp. 183-190.

E. J. R. Rossiter, "Reflections of a whistle-blower," Nature, Vol. 357, 11 June 1992, pp. 434-436, on the Briggs fraud case.

Brian Martin, "Scientific fraud and the power structure of science," Prometheus, Vol. 10, No. 1, June 1992, pp. 83-98.

Bill Nicol, McBride: Behind the Myth (Sydney: Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 1989).

Serge Lang, "Questions of scientific responsibility: the Baltimore case," Ethics & Behavior, Vol. 3, No. 1, 1993, pp. 3-72.

Judy Sarasohn, Science on Trial: The Whistle-Blower, the Accused, and the Nobel Laureate (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993), on the Baltimore case.

 

7 The media against suppression

Edward S. Herman, "Terrorism: the struggle against closure," in Brian Martin (ed.), Confronting the Experts (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996), pp. 77-97.

Brian Martin, C. M. Ann Baker, Clyde Manwell and Cedric Pugh (eds.), Intellectual Suppression: Australian Case Histories, Analysis and Responses (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1986). See Brian Martin and Clyde Manwell, "Publicising suppression," pp. 253-256.

 

8 Up against the gatekeepers

Brian Martin, "The scientific straightjacket: the power structure of science and the suppression of environmental scholarship," Ecologist, Vol. 11, No. 1, January-February 1981, pp. 33-43.

Marlene Dixon, Things Which Are Done in Secret (Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1976).

Brian Martin, "Suppression of dissident experts: ideological struggle in Australia," Crime and Social Justice, No. 19, Summer 1983, pp. 91-99.

George Munster, Secrets of State: A Detailed Assessment of the Book They Banned (Australia: Walsh & Munster, an imprint of Angus & Robertson, 1982).

Brian Martin, C. M. Ann Baker, Clyde Manwell and Cedric Pugh (eds.), Intellectual Suppression: Australian Case Histories, Analysis and Responses (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1986).

Brian Martin, "Nuclear suppression," Science and Public Policy, Vol. 13, No. 6, December 1986, pp. 312-320.

Brian Martin, "Science policy: dissent and its difficulties," Philosophy and Social Action, Vol. 12, No. 1, January-March 1986, pp. 5-23.

Brian Martin, "Intellectual suppression: why environmental scientists are afraid to speak out," Habitat Australia, Vol. 20, No. 3, July 1992, pp. 11-14.

Brian Martin, "Stamping out dissent," Newsweek [selected editions], 26 April 1993, pp. 49-50.

Brian Martin, "The determinants of scientific behaviour," Society for Interdisciplinary Studies Review, Vol. 2, 1978, pp. 112-118, on the response of scientists to "cranks," in particular Velikovsky.

 

9 Opponents of suppression

Brian Martin, "Academic scapegoats," Zedek, Vol. 7, No. 3, August 1987, pp. 476-481, on the further harassment of Clyde Manwell. (Zedek, the official journal of the Social Activist Professors Defense Foundation, 19329 Monte Vista Drive, Detroit MI 48221, USA, is filled with good material but is almost impossible to obtain!)

K. Jean Lennane, "'Whistleblowing': a health issue," British Medical Journal, Vol. 307, 11 September 1993, pp. 667-670, on the health problems of whistleblowers.

William De Maria, "Queensland whistleblowing: sterilising the lone crusader," Australian Journal of Social Issues, Vol. 27, No. 4, November 1992, pp. 248-261.

Nat Hentoff, Free Speech for Me - But Not for Thee: How the American Left and Right Relentlessly Censor Each Other (New York: HarperCollins, 1992).

Timothy Doyle, "Environmental movement power brokers," Philosophy and Social Action, Vol. 16, No. 3, July-September 1990, pp. 37-52; Chain Reaction, No. 63/64, April 1991.

David Kipnis, The Powerholders (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981, second edition); David Kipnis, Technology and Power (New York: Springer-Verlag, 1990).

Ross Gelbspan, Break-ins, Death Threats and the FBI: The Covert War against the Central America Movement (Boston: South End Press, 1991).

Judith McDaniel, "We were fired: lesbian experiences in academe," Sinister Wisdom, Vol. 20, Spring 1982, pp. 30-43.

Robert Justin Goldstein, Political Repression in Modern America from 1870 to the Present (Cambridge, MA: Schenkman, 1978), including attacks on the left.

John K. Wilson, The Myth of Political Correctness: The Conservative Attack on Higher Education (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995).

 

10 Strategy against suppression

Julie Stewart, Thomas Devine and Dina Rasor, Courage without Martyrdom: A Survival Guide for Whistleblowers (Washington DC: Government Accountability Project [810 First Street NE, Suite 630, Washington DC 20002-3633, USA] and Project on Government Procurement, 1989, 1996).

William De Maria, "Whistleblowing," Alternative Law Journal, Vol. 20, No. 6, December 1995, pp. 270-281, on whistleblower laws.

William De Maria and Cyrelle Jan, "Behold the shut-eyed sentry! Whistleblower perspectives on government failure to correct wrongdoing," Crime, Law & Social Change, Vol. 24, 1996, pp. 151-166.

Virginia Coover, Ellen Deacon, Charles Esser and Christopher Moore, Resource Manual for a Living Revolution (Philadelphia: New Society Publishers, 1981), on developing a strategy.

Framed, Quarterly Magazine of Justice Action, PO Box K365, Haymarket NSW 2000, Australia.

Judith A. Truelson, "Blowing the whistle on systematic corruption: on maximizing reform and minimizing retaliation," Corruption and Reform, Vol. 2, 1987, pp. 55-74.

Deena Weinstein, Bureaucratic Opposition: Challenging Abuses at the Workplace (New York: Pergamon, 1979), a valuable treatment linking suppression with a penetrating analysis of the nature of bureaucracy.

Myron Peretz Glazer and Penina Migdal Glazer, The Whistleblowers: Exposing Corruption in Government and Industry (New York: Basic Books, 1989), one of the best of the many studies of whistleblowing, from the point of view of the whistleblower.