Harristotelian Logic

I put this post up as a simple warning that mathematicians routinely lie about mathematics.

Some of you may think that impossible because of all the mathematics that you know is correct and works in the physics field, but there are lots of mathematical ideas in the "pure math" domain which I suggest to you are completely bogus, but mathematicians when faced with proofs of that, keep using them.

And they keep trying to bleed them over into the sciences, as well as their attituded and behaviors, as how else do you explain string theory?

Such a charge is difficult to convince people on, so I suggest you just ask yourself, what if?

What if mathematicians DO routinely lie about mathematics, how would you know?

[A reply to someone who asked for a proof.]

Supposedly publication in a peer reviewed mathematical journal is the standard that separates the legitimate researchers from the "crackpots" who make all kinds of outlandish claims, which reasonable adults can assume are false when the experts don't back them up.

But I had a paper published in a peer reviewed mathematical journal.

Here's a link to a mirror site for the journal:

http://www.emis.de/journals/SWJPAM/vol2-03.html

There it says "Withdrawn" about my paper, but I didn't withdraw it, the editors did.—after someone posted on the sci.math newsgroup about the publication, so some sci.math'ers mounted an email campaign against the paper. They convinced the editors to abruptly yank it, and the journal managed one more edition before it keeled over and quietly died, after almost a decade of existence.

Here's the main mirror site with a list of what used to be the other site mirrors to give you some perspective on the journal's place before:

http://www.emis.de/journals/SWJPAM/

This story is several years old, and people seem to miss the crucial problem that if publication in a math journal is such a sketchy thing, and someone like myself is given no options by a community which has no qualms about questioning your mental health or tossing names at you like "crank", "crackpot", and "loon", how do you know anything they say is true?

How do you?

What makes you think that anything the mathematical community says about mathematics is actually true?

Remember, most of the mathematics used in physics that has been proven to work over time was known before the 20th century, while there are some new things that appear to work well, like group theory. But what about the rest?

How do you know that people who can so easily crush a paper publication, don't routinely lie?

I'm telling you that they do.

Dig into the story and find out why that paper was so important.