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Subj: Science, morals, ethics or the
cheating of the public
Date: Sunday, November 7, 2004 6:30:08 AM
Dear Dr. Roger J. Busch!
Yesterday I attended your closing lecture at
the symposium on evolution in Vienna (IMP; http://www.imp.univie.ac.at/events/evolution/index.html ).
Your message was that scientists are responsible to inform the
public in a dialogue concerning their innovations and they
should do so by using public media. Aroused by interest
I looked up your homepage (TTN Institute, Ludwig-Maximilians
University, http://www.ttn-institut.de/) and discovered that
the main goal of your institute is an interdisciplinary platform
for ethics in science, technology and economics.
Therefore I would like to
address you with the following question: Is it in the interest
of the public when the major global information server for the
dissemination of knowledge in physics and mathematics - the x-archives
- engages in active censorship by black-listing some of the most
novel and potentially important ideas (see e-mail below
of the censored physicist Dr. Carlos Castro-Perelman to eminent
physicists)? It does not only cause harm for the censored (no
job, no professional carreer) but in fact the public taxpayer
supports a system where he is cut off of novel and creative science. What
you suggested - to inform the mass media and politicians -
does not work at all: they do not even censor, but simply ignore
the situation (including New York Times and many others).
So we believe that we are living in the "New Medieval
Ages" or as the writer and philosopher Ayn Rand put: "our
academia just invented the candles, what do we need light bulbs
for"?.
Thank you very much for your attention
Dr. Alfred Schöller, molecular biologist
Dear Profs. Weinberg, Ne'eman, Sudarshan
and Fink:
Since I know all of you
personally from Austin, in case Luis Boya never told you, I decided
to bring to your attention the illicit censorship and blacklisting of
many scientists ( probably in the hundreds ) by Paul Ginsparg
at the Los Alamos-Cornell archives. Profs. Hans Bethe and Brian
Josephson's words and lawsuits have fallen on deaf ears.
In particular, you may contact Profs. Hans Bethe
and Brian Josephson pertaining the censorship and blacklisting
of the work of Dr. Paul LaViolette who predicted
the Pioneer anomalous acceleration prior to the Anderson
et al's findings. Paul Ginsparg has ---- in the faces
of so many that it is time that someone high in the
Physics establishment puts a stop to this censorship and blacklisting
practices. To get an idea of what is going on at the bastions
of American Academia and Democracy hereby I am enclosing
a letter to the New York Times and to Prof. Noam Chomsky.
He responded immediately in shock at this censorship
and blacklsiting of scientists by Paul Ginsparg at the Los Alamos-Conell
archives. I sincerely hope that you read this e-mail and
that you take the necessary action to "tear down this
wall of shame built by Paul Ginsparg and his associates" (as
quoted by Doc Savage). I have now more than 80 papers,
and I am obviously blacklisted like so many others with numerous
publications and good credentials ( not crack-pots ).
Best wishes
Carlos Castro Perelman
LETTER TO THE NEWS MEDIA
Dear Editor:
I would like to bring to the attention of the News
media the ongoing censorship and blacklisting of scientists that
is plaguing Academia, in particular the physics community. Since
this is a very serious legal matter, before you turn this letter
over to the scientific editorial staff of your newspaper, I would
like to urge you to bring it, firstly, to the attention of responsible
investigative journalists, because it is the latter journalists
who will serve best the unbiased interests of the public at large.
There is an illicit and unfortunate censorship going on
at the Cornell electronic preprint archives whose website
is : <http://www.arXiv.org> and formely at the Los Alamos
National Lab in New Mexico: <http://xxx.lanl.gov>. Such
public open forum, electronic archives in the internet, is the
bloodline of Physics-Mathematics research nowadays
which has replaced journals in the dissemination of novel
ideas. It appears that there could be as many as hundreds
of scientists in the archives Black-List (Cornell's professor
Paul Ginsparg's black-list) reminiscent of the McCarthy
era. Electronic-preprints from this black-list of scientists
are being removed automatically and/or manually before they
appear in the daily listings, irrespective of form, content,
correctness and without a peer-review analysis. What is
very disturbing about this illicit censorship is that it seems
to originate from complaints mailed to the archives (to Paul
Ginsparg) from unknown sources about some particular
individual resulting in the black-listing of that particular
scientist and/or related work. Even more disturbing is
that the scientist is found guilty without ever knowing
WHO the accuser was, nor WHAT is the thing he is being
accused of, and without any chances of defending himself/herself. Once
your name is in the blacklist, all FUTURE papers, without any
peer-reviewed study, irrespective of form and content, correctness....are
systematically removed. Due to this horrendous Scientific-Gulag
practices, there are suggestions being proposed for an UNESCO take-over
of the Los Alamos-Cornell archives. I hope this
happens.
In the meantime, I urge you to please
raise this situation to the attention of other concerned
citizens, colleagues, politicians and professionals to bring
an end to this illicit censorship and blacklisting that
undermines creative freedom, destroys careers and robs humanity
of potential important discoveries. The reason I mention
the latter statement is because this sort of censorship is being
spilled-over to peer-review journals and all sectors of science
by members of the scientific establishment who are protecting
their own vested interests and silencing alternative ideas.
There are lawsuits filed against Los Alamos-Cornell
(Paul Ginsparg and his coworkers) but this does not seem
to have changed nor deterred these censorship policies. On
the contrary, they have reinforced those censorship
policies even stronger in blatant violation and defiance of the
USA law.
The Los Alamos-Cornell electronic archives
is an open public forum that was initiated and paid for by the
US taxpayers since 1991. They still continue to receive
public funding while they are actively engaged in illicit censorship
and black-listing practices in flagrant violations of the free
speech rights guaranteed by the US consititution.
If you wish to have more information about the lawsuits and other
specific details of this censorship and black-listing you may
ask the investigative journalists of your newspaper to please
contact Tony Smith (an attorney and scientist).
Sincerely yours,
Dr. Carlos Castro Perelman
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