On Wednesday 29 December 2004 16:59, thomas malloy wrote:
> Colin posted;
>
> >Hi Fred,
> >
> >I just came across this report of blacklisting
> ><http://www.archivefreedom.org/> going on at the Cornell server.
> >Apparently perhaps 100s of scientists are being blacklisted (Ed
> >Storms included) by persons unknown.
> >See: http://www.archivefreedom.org/casehistories.htm>
> >
> >Nasty business indeed..
>
> I want to thank Jed Rothwell for posting the talk by Brian Josephson
>
> Does anyone have a list of the blacklisted scientists?
Hello all,
This is done not by persons unknown, but by a certain Paul Ginsparg
at Cornell. According to the website above, this university hosts the archive
and obviousely manages it. Since it is under the direction of physicist
Paul, then he has the responsibility for what is done on or by the site
with respect to publication of papers, etc. Just like the military in whose
service I spent over 10 years, the commander of an outfit is the one
who is responsible. The buck stops there.
I am certain that this is not the only archive in the world, even if it is
the one that most of 'our friends' use. Others may be in use by those
'not our friends'. As ours becomes divisive, it loses relevance and will
eventually be shunned by the very community it purports to 'protect'.
The danger is that inasmuch as the arXiv is a 'free world' creation and it
is not free, it will not only lose the moral high ground, but also that
discoveries made elsewhere will be known everywhere but in our own
'ruling clique'. We could be very unpleasantly surprised by another
'Sputnik' , an 'in your face' proof of an unknown technology by an
hostile group done in an unignorable way.
Standing Bear
remember in the early fifties when many scientists and others were
blacklisted for ostensible political but really many reasons. The result
WAS Sputnik, a monumental acheivement done on a parallel track
that no one in the west paid attention to until too late! Anybody seen
Dr. Ning Li lately? Well we'll just wait, news of her may just float
in someday.
