Gary E Novak

Gary E. Novak
Residence	Seattle, Washington, United States
Nationality	USA
Alma mater	University of Arizona University of California, Davis
Known for	Relativity, Big Bang, global warming criticism
Scientific career
Fields	Microbiology, Biology

Gary E. Novak is an American independent scientist and writer with a background in microbiology. Working outside of academic and government institutions, he publishes critiques of mainstream physics and climate science on his personal websites, addressing topics such as relativity, the Big Bang theory, the physics of energy, and global warming. His conclusions fall outside the scientific consensus in these fields.

Biography

Novak studied agriculture and microbiology as an undergraduate and earned a master's degree in microbiology from the University of Arizona in 1970, where his graduate research concerned the physiology and sporulation of an unusual yeast, Nadsonia fulvescens. He subsequently spent a year of doctoral study at the University of California, Davis, before leaving without completing the degree. He describes a total of about eight years of university study across three institutions.

Rather than pursuing a conventional academic career, Novak has worked as a self-described independent scientist, conducting his own exploratory research and writing science criticism intended for a general audience. He has stated that as an outsider he was unable to publish his later work through established journals. He has lived in Seattle, Washington.

Work

Novak's early research examined yeast sporulation, which he presented as illustrating a general physiology of differentiation applicable to fungi, molds and mushrooms. He later devoted many years to studying the development and, in his interpretation, the ongoing evolution of the morel mushroom, arguing that it derives from a single-celled ancestor. This work was not accepted for publication by the mycological community, which Novak attributes to institutional resistance to outsiders.

Beyond biology, Novak writes on physics and cosmology. He argues that the standard kinetic energy relationship is mistaken and that this alleged error propagates through much of physics, and he disputes core elements of relativity and the Big Bang model. In the area of climate, he contends that human carbon dioxide emissions cannot produce significant global warming, emphasizing the small atmospheric fraction of carbon dioxide and the role of the oceans and water vapor, and he is critical of climate modeling. He has also written broadly against the modern system of scientific peer review, which he characterizes as a form of censorship.

These positions are outside the mainstream of the relevant scientific disciplines, and Novak's climate and physics claims have been disputed by commentators and researchers. His writings have been reprinted or discussed on a number of independent and alternative-media outlets.

Abstracts

• 0 - "[[Big Bang Theory - It Gets More Absurd All the Time

]]" (Read in full)

• 0 - "The Truth about Relativity" (Read in full)

External links

• About Gary Novak, Independent Scientist
• Science Errors (personal website)