Herndon's Earth and the Dark Side of Science (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781503041271)

J. Marvin Herndon (b. 1944) is an American interdisciplinary scientist, who earned his BA degree in physics in 1970 from the University of California, San Diego and his Ph.D. degree in nuclear chemistry in 1974 from Texas A&M University. J. Marvin Herndon was a post-doctoral apprentice to Hans E. Suess and Harold C. Urey in geochemistry and cosmochemistry at the University of California, San Diego. He is the President and CEO of Transdyne Corporation in San Diego, California. Profiled in 2003 in Current Biography, along with Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, William H. Rehnquist, White House chief of staff, Andrew H. Card, Jr., film director and screenwriter, Sofia Coppola and thirteen others, dubbed a "maverick geophysicist" by The Washington Post [The Washington Post, March 24, 2003, Page A06], and armed with a unique knowledge of the nature of science and the ways to make important discoveries, passed down through generations of master scientists, J. Marvin Herndon's professional life, as a technologist and as a scientist, has been a step-by-step logical progression of understanding and discovery, uncovering and posing corrections to deep-rooted mistakes in geophysics, in astrophysics, and in science management. His concept of a nuclear fission georeactor at Earth's center, the feature article, cover story of the August 2002 issue of Discover magazine, has been thoroughly vetted by the international scientific community. His work has been featured in news and magazine articles worldwide, for examples, from the Sunday Times of London to Japanese Playboy and from Science & Vie to Newton. In 1979, J Marvin Herndon realized and published a fundamentally different concept for the then-forty-year-old idea of the composition of Earth's inner core. Although praised by the inner core's discoverer, Inge Lehmann, the geoscience community collectively decided to pretend that Herndon's concept had never been published instead of challenging or accepting the idea. That trapped the geoscience community in the circa 1940 understanding of Earth's interior while allowing Herndon to progress logically from one discovery to the next without competition revealing Earth's totally different origin, interior composition, energy sources, geodynamic behavior, its currently increasing earthquake activity and non-human-caused additions of CO2 to the atmosphere.