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    The Law of Universal Mendacity: And Don't Be Conned
    The Law of Universal Mendacity: And Don't Be Conned
    The Law of Universal Mendacity: And Don't Be Conned
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    The Law of Universal Mendacity: And Don't Be Conned

    By Bo De Yang

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    The book is a reaction to
    contemporary trends. It describes a
    revolutionary way of treating truthfulness, honesty and deception. Does our
    civilization really possess an optimistic bias towards truthfulness?style='mso-spacerun:yes'>



    Most people are offended by overt
    lies and some are duped by them some of the time.style='mso-spacerun:yes'> Even so, we oil our social gears with white
    lies: not all people - some don't; others cause hurt; yet others suffer
    guilt. The book shows how to draw
    maximum information from assertions - whether lying or misguided or
    sincere. It shows how to use them to
    advantage by looking to the reality that underlies the words that are used, and
    by noticing the way they are used: words
    have a real meaning that is opposite to their intended meanings.    style='mso-spacerun:yes'> We reflect on this in the words we use.



    A mainstream warning is
    supported, namely that our civilization is in fact endangered.style='mso-spacerun:yes'> False communications threaten us, especially
    in our ever increasing power over the world, through science.style='mso-spacerun:yes'> Radiative and chemical emissions harm
    us. The book is well informed with
    regard to waste in science and industry and to dangers for public safety.style='mso-spacerun:yes'> The treatment shows how individual survival
    is promoted by avoiding the ever more evident pitfalls.style='mso-spacerun:yes'> Perhaps, by this means, our final hour can be
    postponed.



    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateApr 16, 2004
    ISBN9781418405724
    The Law of Universal Mendacity: And Don't Be Conned
    Author

    Bo De Yang

    The author is an established writer, practicing scientist, professor, laboratory director, and company executive.  He was trained first in philosophy, and he brings a new and thoughtful analysis to the hardheaded world of survival.  He applies particular knowledge of the materials used in the high technology semiconductor industry and to the structures needed to provide safety in an ever more nuclear world.

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      The Law of Universal Mendacity - Bo De Yang

      © 2004 by Bo De Yang. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the author.

      First published by AuthorHouse 04/08/04

      ISBN: 1-4184-0572-8 (e-book)

      ISBN: 1-4184-0573-6 (Paperback)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2003098970

      Contents

      PREFACE

      Chapter 1 PROBLEMS WITH PROBLEMS

      CHAPTER 2 THE LAW OF UNIVERSAL MENDACITY

      CHAPTER 3 LAWS OF SCIENCE-ASSERTIONS OR PROPOSITIONS?

      CHAPTER 4 WHO GUARDS THE GUARDIANS?

      CHAPTER 5 MENDACITY IN BELIEF SYSTEMS

      CHAPTER 6 CORPORATE AMERICA

      CHAPTER 7 CONCLUSION

      REFERENCES AND NOTES

      About the author

      PREFACE

      The law that keeps our feet on the ground is the same law of gravity that holds the moon high above the atmosphere. We don’t avert to it to feel it. There are laws that govern the way we deal with information, though we may not notice them. We select information for relevance. Facts are rarely simple. In an age when lying is policy, those who indulge in dupery become sacrificial victims: most of all the naively loyal young men, of whatever persuasion, who put themselves in harm’s way when their comfortable elders order it. When leaders lie they lose, eventually, their power to lead, because electorates do not like being deceived and the truth often comes out in time.

      This scripted antidote is for responsible and democratic behavior. It is against being deceived-a trick vital to the military, truth being a counter revelation to the art of surprise and therefore the first casualty before enemies are engaged. Cheaters prosper because they take the advantage and are safe because the power of the honest is disadvantaged. This book is not overtly about truth and honesty, qualities much prized by some, qualities often instilled by education, and about which much has been written that can be taken forbackground. The book is tolerant of realistic failures of rationality in humankind. You are recommended constantly to move forward-no less when expectations are disappointed or surprised.

      There are times when information has the advantage and when honesty can be enforced, but how do you ensure enforcement when you don’t have an independent source for knowledge? Normally, you cannot make grown people honest. This book is for the individual: how you draw information from what other people say or write, whether honest or lying or unpredictable. A perspective is given from a professional standpoint in which honesty is variously assumed, supposed and abused.

      What should a scientist do when his life is in professional danger and not just his own life, but those of his staff and of the general public? What should he do when he realizes that the problem is not specific to his locality but generic around the world? Should he blow the whistle when he knows he has no funds for safety-when he knows that his laboratory accounts are grossly misleading and that he has no power to correct them? Should he rat when he knows that radiation rates, hundreds of times above legal limits, have been emitted? Should he do thiswhen he knows that the political instincts of the judiciary are uncertain and that universities have powerful resources to bring against adversaries? What he actually does is to ensure that he can continue to profess the truth from secure ground-somewhere that can allow this by preventing his livelihood from being robbed from him and somewhere that has a more independent legal system. He relies on survival instincts at both biological and institutional levels, instincts that combine with the best reasoning he can bring to bear. Truth, honesty and credibility are what his personal career had been based on and they have the power to bear his undoing. As much power as undid David Kelly. Scientists are not able to expose the callous errors made by unscrupulous managements.

      Academics are trained to see many sides to a problem. When he sails between Scylla and Charybdis, the scientist needs to know it. Formal complaint will make it impossible to fund his laboratory with vital supplies and equipment. Shrill warnings will jeopardize the public as much as silence, on the other side, will risk the health of all. The best he can do is to complain from a distance and refocus his energy where his science takes him. Science is his bedrock. He moves his foundation from a beach of shifting sands to thefirmness of a foreign island. When they persecute in one city he moves on to another.

      Time was on his side. He could instruct his staff and make his own exit before the local administration would realize in what danger they were. There are hazards everywhere. All writing is a kind of fiction and this is a story of what happens beyond press gaze. Familiar, warm

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