Robin van Spaandonk wrote:
In reply to Dr. Mitchell Swartz's message of Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:44:24 -0400:Rothwell (admitting he edits papers): "Swartz's assertions are crazy nonsense. I would never demand to edit papers......
- Hi,
- [snip]
- > Corroborating your fabrications, Jed, you have told others and us
- >that you demand to EDIT the papers.
- [snip]
- ..from the perspective of an outsider to all of this, I get the impression that
- Jed edit's papers to make them more comprehensible, however I can understand
- that some authors would object to any interference at all.
(but then in the next paragraph)
When I am preparing papers for a proceedings, that's another matter. ...."
Rothwell (admitting he censors papers): "Ed and I have on rare occasions turned down papers altogether. Maybe 3 to 5 times. These papers were off-topic, crazy, utterly incomprehensible, or handwritten and illegible. Generally speaking though, if you can get a paper published in a proceedings or journal anywhere, and it has some connection to cold fusion, we'll take it. We never turn down papers because we disagree with them. On the contrary, for years I have been trying to get more of the skeptics to contribute papers.
- Jed"
What is nonsense is that Jed Rothwell is disingenuous.
Merely the postings on vortex corroborate the assertions.
Jed previously explained why he censors at his site.
At 10:45 AM 8/23/2004, Jed Rothwell admitted to censoring, but then purported it is for
"political reasons", such as not to upset some of his "critics" (ROTFLOL)
so he will not get hit with by "a baseball bat (given) to Robert Park".
Rothwell: "I will not hand a baseball bat to Robert Park and ask him
to please hit me over the head with it! It is a shame that CF is so political,
but it is, and we must pay attention to politics, image and public relations."
What is also interesting is the following from the late
Dr. Eugene Mallove (discussed on vortex previously) with regards to the
website (Jed's) in question and what Jed and Gene called
"political censorship".
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004
Subject: Storms/Rothwell censorship
From: "Eugene F. Mallove" <[email protected]>
To: Mitchell Swartz <[email protected]>
"Mitch,
FYI -- this was a message that Rothwell posted to Vortex about a month ago:
"At LENR-CANR.org we have censored out some of the controversial claims
related to CF, such as transmuting macroscopic amounts of gold, or
biological transmutations, along with some of the extremely unconventional
theories. This is not because we (Storms and Rothwell) oppose these claims,
or because we are upset by them. It is for political reasons only. The goal
of LENR-CANR is to convince mainstream scientists that CF is real. This
goal would be hampered by presenting such extreme views. Actually, I have
no opinion about most theories, and I could not care less how weird the
data may seem. At the Scientific American and the APS they feel hostility
toward such things. They have a sense that publishing such data will harm
their readers and sully the traditions and reputation of academic science.
I am not a member of the congregation at the Church of Academic Science,
and I could not care less about the Goddess Academia's Sacred Reputation. I
don't publish because of politics and limited web space.
- Jed"
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004
Subject: Storms/Rothwell censorship
From: "Eugene F. Mallove" <[email protected]>
"This is known as science by politics -- it is disgusting. Storms doesn't
have leg to stand on and he knows it."
- the late, great, Dr. Eugene Mallove
That said, I support, and in the past have supported, Jed and Ed in most
of their efforts, and however they want to run their site. It is their choice.
