Review of genuine science Harold Hillman: The Living Cell: Re-examination of Its Fine Structure
Very important book—explains why fundamental medical science has stalled, June 26, 2010
100-page but fact-packed book on how cells have been misunderstood, because of flaws in techniques. Something like half of research into biology is wasted as a result. This has been the case for thirty years, and shows no sign of reversing. People trying to draw lessons from such events as 9/11, NASA, and even Pearl Harbor and other exercises in misinformation will be pleased to know there is also a theoretical basis for their suspicions over the failure of medical science to progress much, apart from technological matters. The theoretical basis is that structures believed to be part of cells, and around which a lot of research effort is made, such as the endoplasmic reticulum, simply don't exist—they are an artefact caused by misinterpretation of electron micrographs. Careless work, and absence of control experiments, have led to a NASA-like situation of entrenched errors.
One of the authors, Peter Sartory, an optical microscopist—and also expert with telescopes—died, I think of emphysema. Harold Hillman is alive, but not very well. This book was intended (thirty years ago) for doctors, researchers, O and A level biology students, though it fell rather flat due to entrenched opposition. His latest and probably last book, Evidence-Based Cell Biology took him eight years to write and is in a sense a much amplified version of all of his books.