Saturday, July 22, 2006
When reasonable adults do nothing
What's so frustrating about my story is the lack of ANY options that work, as, for instance I had a math paper published!!! All it took was for some sci.math people to send some emails and get it yanked over night. When the journal had my paper for over nine months. And I spent years figuring out that mathematics.
The later death of the journal just makes the story bizarre and here's a link to the main site mirror:
http://www.emis.de/journals/SWJPAM/
That mirror site is important as, as far as I know, it is the last one, a and there you can read a bit about the now dead journal, and see how many other site mirrors there were.
How can that happen in our modern age?
It's easy for some of you to rationalize I think figuring that if I were a distinguished academic in the field, who wasn't going around talking about other academics being freaking liars, things would be different, but then there's Dr. Halton Arp in the astronomy field:
http://www.haltonarp.com/
He is distinguished in the field, he's actually dominant in the field—Google "Arp galaxies".
Now when I read news stories about academics declaring this or that in astronomy, I just don't believe them. I use to be very skeptical but I've gone to simply dismissing them outright.
The problem I think is that most adults just don't care.
So extreme stories can abound where one majority group is totally out there in terms of proof against its position that it ignores, while horrendous labeling is allowed and condoned, so when you speak out in your own defense, you're a "crackpot", "crank", or "loon" among other names.
I don't know how many times Usenet people have confidently diagnosed me as mentally ill.
The important point here is that there is no way with these people. They don't follow even their own rules, dismissing publication as if it were nothing.
Think about that—there is no way with these people.
They have given no route for others with outside opinions, even when you have done what reasonable adults should see as necessary, like getting publication. And no one is policing them, no one is holding them accountable, so why should they tell you the truth?
What makes you think you actually know much of anything that is true about our universe?
Years from now people like you may be a joke taught to students about how easily groups can become deluded about their own knowledge when so much evidence contrary to their beliefs was out there, but they went with a group of people who didn't even follow basic social rules?
How many people do you call crackpot on a daily basis?
How many people do you happily diagnose as mentally ill in your daily life when they disagree with you?
The later death of the journal just makes the story bizarre and here's a link to the main site mirror:
http://www.emis.de/journals/SWJPAM/
That mirror site is important as, as far as I know, it is the last one, a and there you can read a bit about the now dead journal, and see how many other site mirrors there were.
How can that happen in our modern age?
It's easy for some of you to rationalize I think figuring that if I were a distinguished academic in the field, who wasn't going around talking about other academics being freaking liars, things would be different, but then there's Dr. Halton Arp in the astronomy field:
http://www.haltonarp.com/
He is distinguished in the field, he's actually dominant in the field—Google "Arp galaxies".
Now when I read news stories about academics declaring this or that in astronomy, I just don't believe them. I use to be very skeptical but I've gone to simply dismissing them outright.
The problem I think is that most adults just don't care.
So extreme stories can abound where one majority group is totally out there in terms of proof against its position that it ignores, while horrendous labeling is allowed and condoned, so when you speak out in your own defense, you're a "crackpot", "crank", or "loon" among other names.
I don't know how many times Usenet people have confidently diagnosed me as mentally ill.
The important point here is that there is no way with these people. They don't follow even their own rules, dismissing publication as if it were nothing.
Think about that—there is no way with these people.
They have given no route for others with outside opinions, even when you have done what reasonable adults should see as necessary, like getting publication. And no one is policing them, no one is holding them accountable, so why should they tell you the truth?
What makes you think you actually know much of anything that is true about our universe?
Years from now people like you may be a joke taught to students about how easily groups can become deluded about their own knowledge when so much evidence contrary to their beliefs was out there, but they went with a group of people who didn't even follow basic social rules?
How many people do you call crackpot on a daily basis?
How many people do you happily diagnose as mentally ill in your daily life when they disagree with you?
# posted by James Harris @ 15:57 
