Brian Martin (social scientist)
Brian Martin | |
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Born | 1947 |
Education | Rice University, (BA in Physics); University of Sydney (PhD) |
Occupation(s) | Social scientist at University of Wollongong (social study of dissent, peace studies); formerly mathematician at Australian National University |
Years active | 1973–present |
Employer | University of Wollongong |
Brian Martin (born 1947) is a social scientist in the School of Humanities and Social Inquiry, Faculty of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, at the University of Wollongong (UOW) in NSW, Australia.[1] He was appointed a professor at the university in 2007, and in 2017 was appointed emeritus professor.[2] His work is in the fields of peace research, scientific controversies, science and technology studies, sociology, political science, media studies, law, journalism, freedom of speech, education and corrupted institutions,[2][1][3] as well as research on whistleblowing and dissent in the context of science.[4][5] Martin was president of Whistleblowers Australia from 1996 to 1999 and remains their International Director.[6] He has been criticized by medical professionals and public health advocates for promoting the disproven oral polio vaccine AIDS hypothesis and supporting vaccine hesitancy in the context of his work.[7][8][9]
Martin has spoken at a British Science Association Festival of Science,[10] and testified at the Australian Federal Senate's Inquiry into Academic Freedom.[4][11] The crustacean Polycheles martini was named after him.[12]
Research and academia
Martin was born in the United States in 1947 and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He earned a BA in physics at Rice University in Texas in 1969, and, seeking to avoid conscription into the Vietnam War, emigrated to Australia, where he earned a PhD in physics at the University of Sydney in 1976.[13][14]
Martin's original academic field was
Martin has been criticised for supporting the incorrect
Martin has been active in the criticism of university systems. He has criticized conflicts of interest where universities are managing internal investigations that may lead to bad publicity, and recommends having independent groups investigate allegations of misconduct;[21] he has written about the unauthorised use of research produced by students and junior researchers by senior academics;[22] and he has been outspoken against sexual relationships between staff and students.[23][24] He also reports that any bias within universities could simply be due to students strategically working in-line with the biases of their teachers.[4]
Martin was subjected to an attempted academic gag when he published material about the forced retirement of a University of Adelaide academic. His university instructed him to remove the content from his website after Adelaide University threatened to sue. Martin's published material in question is now found on other websites.[25]
Martin believes that if complainants go through the official channels the outcome is very predictable, in that the organisation's internal grievance procedures, or making a complaint to the relevant ombudsman, does not work.[10] He also believes whistleblower laws do not work, saying; "Not only are whistleblower laws flawed through exemptions and in-built weaknesses but in their implementation they are rarely helpful".[26]
Criticism
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In April 2001, Martin published an article in defence of a sacked academic at UOW in the national newspaper The Australian.[27] In a response published in the same paper, the Vice-Chancellor of Murdoch University Steven Schwartz accused Martin of a position supporting the concept of a "laissez-faire attitude towards academic freedom (in which all sides are presented impartially)" saying his "approach to academic freedom is neither logical nor practical" as this approach "forces universities to abandon their most cherished values: scholarship, wisdom and truth".[28]
Immunologist and research scientist Greg Woods refuted Martin's posit on the
In 2014, Martin published a paper characterising criticism of
Martin has been criticised for his role in the
In 2016, the
Publications
Books
- Truth tactics (Sparsnäs, Sweden: Irene Publishing, 2021)
- Official channels (Sparsnäs, Sweden: Irene Publishing, 2020)
- Jørgen Johansen and Brian Martin. Social defence (Sparsnäs, Sweden: Irene Publishing, 2019)
- Vaccination panic in Australia (Sparsnäs, Sweden: Irene Publishing, 2018)
- The deceptive activist (Sparsnäs, Sweden: Irene Publishing, 2017).[39]
- Ruling tactics: methods of promoting everyday nationalism, how they serve rulers and how to oppose them (Sparsnäs, Sweden: Irene Publishing, 2017).[40]
- Nonviolence Unbound (Sparsnäs, Sweden: Irene Publishing, 2015).[41]
- The Controversy Manual (Sparsnäs, Sweden: Irene Publishing, 2014).[41]
- Doing Good Things Better (Sparsnäs, Sweden: Irene Publishing, 2013)[41]
- Justice Ignited: The Dynamics of Backfire, (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007).[42]
- (with Wendy Varney). Nonviolence Speaks: Communicating against Repression, (Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2003).[43]
- Nonviolence versus capitalism, (London: War Resisters' International, 2001).[42]
- Technology for Nonviolent Struggle, (London: War Resisters' International, 2001).[42]
- (with Lyn Carson). Random Selection in Politics, (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999).[42]
- The Whistleblower's Handbook: How to Be an Effective Resister, (Charlbury, UK: Jon Carpenter; Sydney: Envirobook, 1999).[10] Updated and republished 2013 as Whistleblowing: a practical guide, (Sparsnäs, Sweden: Irene Publishing)[41]
- Information Liberation, (London: Freedom Press, 1998).[42]
- Tied Knowledge: Power in Higher Education, (self-published, 1998).[44]
- Suppression Stories, (Wollongong: Fund for Intellectual Dissent, 1997).[42]
- Social Defence, Social Change, (London: Freedom Press, 1993).[45]
- Scientific Knowledge in Controversy: The Social Dynamics of the Fluoridation Debate, (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991).[42]
- (with C. M. Ann Baker, Clyde Manwell & Cedric Pugh) Intellectual Suppression: Australian Case Histories, Analysis and Responses,ISBN 0207151326
- Uprooting war, (London: ISBN 978-0900384264
- The Bias of Science (Society for Social Responsibility in Science, 1979) ISBN 0909509131
Journal articles in the physical sciences
His most cited papers are:[46]
- Davies, Brian; Martin, Brian (1 October 1979). "Numerical inversion of the laplace transform: a survey and comparison of methods". Journal of Computational Physics. 33 (1): 1–32. ISSN 0021-9991.
- Hess, David; Martin, Brian (1 June 2006). "Repression, Backfire, and The Theory of Transformative Events". Mobilization: An International Quarterly. 11 (2): 249–267. ISSN 1086-671X.
- Martin, Brian; Richards, Evelleen. "Scientific Knowledge, Controversy, and Public Decision Making". Handbook of Science and Technology Studies. SAGE Publications, Inc.: 506–526. Retrieved 22 January 2024.
Other journal articles (selection)
- Brian Martin (1990). Captives of Controversy: The Myth of the Neutral Social Researcher in Contemporary Scientific Controversies, Science, Technology, & Human Values, Vol. 15, No. 4, Fall 1990, pp. 474–494
- Martin, Brian (1996). "Sticking a Needle into Science: The Case of Polio Vaccines and the Origin of AIDS". S2CID 146463905.
- Juan Miguel Campanario & Brian Martin (2004). Challenging dominant physics paradigms, Journal of Scientific Exploration, vol. 18, no. 3, Fall 2004, pp. 421–438.
- David Hess & Brian Martin (2006). Repression, backfire, and the theory of transformative events Mobilization, Vol. 11, No. 1, June 2006, pp. 249–267.
- Martin, Brian (2015). "On the Suppression of Vaccination Dissent".
References
- ^ a b "Brian Martin". scholars.uow.edu.au. University of Wollongong Australia. Archived from the original on 25 May 2021. Retrieved 11 August 2021.
- ^ a b Raper, Judy (1 November 2017). "Emeritus Professor Brian Martin". University of Wollongong. Archived from the original on 22 June 2019.
- ^ a b Maley, William (1 September 1986). "Corrupted Institutions". The Age Monthly Review. Melbourne: Fairfax. pp. 19–21(61–63). Archived from the original on 10 August 2020. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
- ^ a b c Devine, Miranda (4 December 2008). "Monoculture is killing thought". Brisbane Times. Fairfax. Archived from the original on 22 November 2018.
- ^ S2CID 10272587.
- ^ Barclay, Paul (10 May 2004). "Perspective: Whistleblowers and Iraq". ABC Radio. Archived from the original on 7 February 2020.
- ^ a b c Loussikian, Kylar (16 January 2016). "Anti-vaccination activists spruik PhD thesis as proof of conspiracy". The Australian. Archived from the original on 25 January 2017.
- ^ OCLC 904046627.
Although Hooper and Martin are still promoting the tainted polio vaccine hypothesis, recent genetic work has convincingly disproven it... Worobey's team published their genetic comparison of HIV samples in 2008, but Brian Martin continued to promote the tainted polio vaccine hypothesis for the origin of AIDS as late as 2010 in a paper called "How to Attack a Scientific Theory and Get Away with It (Usually)..."
- ^ a b c Morton, Rick (28 January 2014). "University paid for anti-vaccine student to attend conference". The Australian. Archived from the original on 25 January 2017.
- ^ a b c Murcott, Toby (11 September 2000). "Science needs its whistleblowers". BBC News. Archived from the original on 28 August 2017.
- ^ APH (9 September 2008). "Inquiry into Academic Freedom". Parliament of Australia. Archived from the original on 1 July 2017.
- ^ Ahyong, S.; Brown, D.E. (2002). "New Species and New Records of Polychelidae from Australia (Crustacea Decapoda)" (PDF). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 50 (1): 53–79. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 December 2016. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
- ISBN 978-0900384264. Archivedfrom the original on 22 January 2024. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
- from the original on 16 August 2021. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
- ISBN 978-0814735640. p152.
- ^ "Debunked: The Polio Vaccine and HIV Link". historyofvaccines.org. The College of Physicians of Philadelphia. 21 January 2016. Archived from the original on 1 December 2019.
- S2CID 50897742.
- ^ Curtis, Tom (19 March 1992). "The Origin of AIDS: A startling new theory attempts to answer the question, 'Was it an act of God or an act of man?". Rolling Stone. No. 626. pp. 54–9, 61, 106, 108.
- ISBN 0316372617.
- ^ Martin, Brian. (16 May 2016). "Critical thinking about the origin of AIDS: Comments on Stephen Jenkins' account". Retrieved 26 August 2016.
- ^ Colvin, Mark (17 April 2014). "PM: Investigations mounting into research at University of New South Wales". PM - ABC Radio. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on 13 May 2017.
- ^ Matthews, David (22 October 2015). "Papers retracted after authors used unauthorised data from junior researchers". Times Higher Education. London, UK. Archived from the original on 12 March 2016.
- The Sunday Star-Times, New Zealand. pA005.
- ^ Powell, Stan. (29 May 1993). "Uni Staff Attacked for having Sex with Students", The Sydney Morning Herald, p 11.
- ^ Cervini, Erica (1 December 1999). "Gagged. Victoria's academics feel increasingly stifled as funding cuts force their universities down the big-business path". The Age. Melbourne: Fairfax. p. 1(67).
- ^ Pickard, Gabrielle (25 December 2014). "Who Does The Whistleblower Protection Act Really Protect?". Top Secret Writers. US. Archived from the original on 29 March 2016. Retrieved 19 March 2016.
- ^ Martin, Brian (18 April 2001). "Higher Education Supplement". The Australian. News Corp.[dead link]
- ^ Schwartz, Steven; Schwartz, Gregory (27 June 2001). "Laissez faire not fair for all". The Centre for Independent Studies. Sydney: (originally published in The Australian, 27 June 2001 p.31). Archived from the original on 9 January 2020.
- ^ Woods, Greg (18 November 2014). "Tassie devil facial tumour is a transmissible cancer". theconversation.edu.au (Australian ed.). Parkville, Vic.: The Conversation Media Group Ltd. Archived from the original on 12 April 2019.
- ^ Martin, Brian; Warren, Jody (16 November 2014). "What's killing Tassie devils if it isn't a contagious cancer?". theconversation.edu.au (Australian ed.). Parkville, Vic.: The Conversation Media Group Ltd. Archived from the original on 13 April 2019.
- ^ from the original on 4 January 2020. Retrieved 4 January 2020. Published online: 23 March 2014.
- ^ Lapointe, Pascal (15 January 2016). "L'anti-vaccination à l'université" [Anti-vaccination at university]. Agence Science Presse (in French). Quebec, CA. Archived from the original on 26 February 2016.
The professor she chose as supervisor, Brian Martin, is known for his belief in a conspiracy to silence and hide the study that the AIDS virus was caused by the polio vaccine. And he also defends the idea of a vaccine-autism link.
- S2CID 65125326.
- ^ a b "When fulltime isn't quite that, and Queensland's VET goes to Kerala". The Australian. 2 February 2016. Archived from the original on 22 March 2016.
- ^ Brull, Michael (7 February 2016). "Anti-Vaccination Cranks Versus Academic Freedom". New Matilda. At Large Media Pty Ltd. Archived from the original on 26 February 2017.
- ^ Laurence, Emily (13 January 2016). "University of Wollongong criticised over thesis by anti vaccination activist". ABC News (Australia). Archived from the original on 17 January 2016.
- ^ "2016 Skeptics awards – Spoon to Wilyman, Skeptic of the Year to Harvey and Vickers". Australian Skeptics. 28 November 2016. Archived from the original on 18 March 2020.
- ^ "Skeptics name winners of Bent Spoon award". Pharmacy News. Australian Doctor Group. 28 November 2016. Archived from the original on 29 November 2016.
- ISBN 978-9188061218. Archivedfrom the original on 22 January 2024. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
- ISBN 978-9188061171. Archivedfrom the original on 22 January 2024. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
- ^ a b c d "Author search "Brian Martin"". Irene Publishing. Sweden. 5 January 2020. Archived from the original on 5 January 2020.
- ISBN 978-1572734852. Archivedfrom the original on 22 January 2024. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
- (PDF) from the original on 14 March 2023. Retrieved 7 July 2022.
- ISBN 978-0900384691. Archivedfrom the original on 22 January 2024. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
- ^ "Brian Martin". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 22 January 2024.
External links
- Personal home page
- Brian Martin, University of Wollongong