—————Lt Col Thomas Bearden——————
Some time in or before 2001, Bearden began to identify himself as “Tom Bearden, Ph.D.”, and claimed to have written a Ph.D. thesis, he never made this thesis public[25][26] or provided affiliation or details. The Skeptical Inquirer, among others, revealed that Bearden obtained his Ph.D. for “life experience and for life accomplishment” from Trinity College and University, which the magazine describes as “a British institution with no building, campus, faculty, or president, and run from a post office box in Sioux Falls, South Dakota”.[27] This institution is not accredited by any recognized accreditation association and is generally regarded as a diploma mill. It has since changed its name to Bronte International University and its exact location is uncertain.
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I’m looking further into Bearden.
That said, I can’t help but notice that a bunch of what is in the Wikipedia article that you referenced is by a Martin Gardner, whose degree is in philosophy but who fancies himself a science writer. I guess he’s therefore qualified to say what physicists consider a joke? The wikipedia page for him left out basic information about him and read as though it was written strictly by his fans. The contrast between that wiki “fan” page and the one for Bearden could not have been more stark. Seems a bit hypocritical that Bearden’s degrees would be such an issue and Gardner’s such a non-issue, given that Gardner is considered an expert on how qualified Bearden is or isn’t. Just an observation.
I’ve had some real-life experience with the “skeptics” Gardner aligns himself with. I trust them as far as I can throw the whole lot of them. The point is always to disprove anything that supports faith in God, even if science has to be butchered to do so. It’s not an epistemology that I trust.
I read (or partially-read) the criticisms of Bearden’s actual work that are posted in that Wikipedia page you referenced. My understanding of the math is limited, but it seems to me that one of the criticisms involves the difference between what Maxwell included in his theory, versus what Heaviside ended up with, which Bearden discusses in his presentation. The other one was published in “Random Operators and Stochastic Equations” and I was not able to find any information on whether that had been peer-reviewed.
We have the eyewitness testimony of the whistleblower in Iceland and also direct confirmation from the military regarding Directed Energy Weapons. Bearden is not the only person who is saying that these kinds of technologies exist.