Taswell2025WDDDMSMS

Title

Who Defends Democracy and Decency? Let's Maintain Standards for Maintaining Standards
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Authors

Carl Taswell

Affiliations

Brain Health Alliance Virtual Institute, www.BHAVI.us, Ladera Ranch, California, USA.

Abstract

The health of societies and individuals remains fundamentally connected to the integrity of democratic and educational institutions responsible for scientific and medical research. Healthy open societies must examine the erosion of democratic and ethical standards that has occurred in politics and academics over the past several decades. This report extends the DARVO concept of "Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender" from the fields of trauma psychology and interpersonal violence research to the author's transdisciplinary concept of darvomanic misconduct as a blend of denialism, duplicity, reality inversion, and institutional betrayal, which destroys both democratic governance and research integrity. This darvomania manifests as political corruption, academic corruption, and the prevalence of plagiarism, ghosting, and censorship of public open scientific debate in research publishing. As case study, the misappropriation, plagiarism, and ghosting of the foundational research published by the PORTAL-DOORS Project in the historical record of published literature exemplifies this darvomanic misconduct and institutional betrayal by those who lack a commitment to research integrity. Structural reforms must be enacted to prevent worsening of the corruption. In politics, politicians, leaders, and advocates of political parties must be held to the same ethical standards as community safety officers, judicial independence must be strengthened, and voting should become a mandatory civic duty. In academics, darvomanic misconduct with institutional betrayal will be stopped and prevented only when accountability standards are maintained with open, transparent, independent, and public investigations of misconduct, enforcement of the retraction of fraudulent research, and compliance with ethical codes of conduct established by independent organizations free from financial conflicts of interest. Both democracy and science are threatened by unchecked misconduct. Only through collective courage, accountability, and the maintenance of standards can society defend its foundational values of democracy, decency, truth, integrity, fairness, and justice.

KeyPhrases

Scientific truth, behavioral integrity, darvomanic misconduct, idea-laundering plagiarism by authors, idea-bleaching censorship by editors, for-profit denialism by publishers, institutional betrayal.

Dates

Created 2025-10-04, presented 2025-10-09, updated 2026-06-29, published 2026-06-29, revised 2026-07-21.

Citation

Brainiacs Journal 2025 Volume 6 Issue 3 Edoc D4MF33921
DOI: 10.48085/D4MF33921
NPDS: LINKS/Brainiacs/Taswell2025WDDDMSMS

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