Exterrestrial Origin Of Earth Life Belief Gets Scientist Fired And Research Defunded (video and picture)

Chandra Wickramasinghe, a former student of Sir Fred Hoyle, is a distinguished astronomer who has made important contributions to the theory of cosmic dust.  In 1974 he first proposed the theory that dust in interstellar space and in comets was largely organic, a theory that has now been vindicated.  Jointly with Sir Fred Hoyle he was awarded the International Dag Hammarskjold Gold Medal for Science in 1986, and in 1992 he was decorated by the President of Sri Lanka with the titular honour of Vidya Jyothi.  He was awarded the International Sahabdeen Prize for Science in 1996.  He holds the highest doctorate (ScD) from the University of Cambridge and an honorary doctorate from the Soka University of Tokyo, Japan, along with several other international distinctions. Formerly a Fellow of Jesus College Cambridge, he is now Professor of Applied Mathematics and Astronomy at Cardiff University of Wales.  He is an award-winning poet and the author or co-author of over 20 books and over 250 scientific papers.  He has held visiting professorial appointments in a large number of Universities world-wide and has at one time been advisor to the President of Sri Lanka.  He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.

“Even though the general public revelled in ideas of extraterrestrial life, science was expected to shun this subject no matter how strong the evidence, albeit through a conspiracy of silence.

It was an unwritten doctrine of science that extraterrestrial life could not exist in our immediate vicinity, or, that if such life did exist, it could not have a connection with Earth, continues professor Wickramasinghe.

Professor Wickramasinghe’s was recently dismissed from his post and criticized for his support of Hoover’s alien life claim.

It should be added that professor Wickramasinghe’s research dealt only with extraterrestrial microbial life. One can imagine what would happen if scientists suddenly started to debate in public issues concerning the existence of advanced, intelligent extraterrestrial life.

Resisting the facts and imposing censorship will in the long run turn out to be futile.  MOREHERE

Wickramasinghe believes that this campaign of explicit denials and censorship may have started between 1962 and 1965 when microorganisms were actually recovered from the stratosphere using balloons flown to heights between 20 and 43km.

“This important pioneering work, carried out by NASA at the dawn of the Space Age, probably rang alarm bells to which the authorities had to react, and react they surely did.

I was told by Leslie Hale, an atmospheric scientist at Penn State University that this exciting programme of work was suddenly halted by funds being withdrawn. Nothing more was said,” says professor Wickramasinghe.

When Hans Dieter Pflug, a colleague of professor Wickramasinghe investigated the Murchison meteorite, he discovered a wide range of organic structures uncannily similar to terrestrial microorganisms  MOREHERE