| Description | Contains the following magazine articles about Gold and his advocacy of the theory that oil and gas deposits are non-biological (abiogenic) in origin: Kathy Bodovitz, 'Gold strikes oil' in 'Cornell Alumni News', December 1991, pp 5-6; Anthony Liversidge, 'Heresy! 3 modern galileos' in 'Omni', June 2003, pp43-51; Wolfgang Hess, 'Der Querdenker' in 'bild der wissenschaft', March 1991, pp 24-28. There is also a copy of the English translation of the article; David Osborne, 'The origin of petroleum' in 'The Atlantic', February 1986, pp39-54. Also contains a chapter, 'Oil, coal and gas have abiogenic origins' from a book by Robert Ehrlich, 'Nine crazy ideas in science' (Princeton University Press, 2001). Also includes an article by David Dudley about Thomas Gold and his career, 'The wrong man' in 'Cornell alumni magazine', September/October 2003, pp53-59. There is a short paper by Thomas Gold, 'Introduction: debate about the origin of petroleum' in 'Earth Sciences History', Volume 16, No 1, 1997, pp13-16. There is also an agenda for an IBM conference, 'A disturbing experience for scientists', 9-10 March 1989. According to the agenda, Thomas Gold was to speak at the conference on 'The inertia of scientific thought'. |