A widely-accepted foundation stone of scientific logic involves a process of elimination, requiring all available possibilities to be considered with incorrect ideas discarded when they fail to predict experimental results.

a leading group of concerned scientists

questions a core belief – the belief in the so-called big bang theory.

Already, the first line of defense – censorship – has held. The journal Nature rejected the letter for publication

That scathing commentator on errant human behavior, John Ralston Saul, has compared the scientific community to the medieval church

setting up organizations – political, religious, and scientific – that with time become authoritarian, exclusive and dogmatic.