At 02:02 AM 10/23/2009, Steven Krivit wrote:
I have found that when I expose or report truths that people don't want exposed - or truths which some people just cannot face - if they can't disprove my facts then they react just like you have done - with invective and hostility, and attack the messenger.
Mr. Krivit has been, unfortunately, the one attacking the messengers. I can't imagine what he's talking about as to a "truth which some people cannot face" or "don't want exposed." Sure, I could imagine that kind of motive for Dardik's people, perhaps, or other players in this who might have some attachment, in other words, Krivit's paranoia might make some kind of sense with respect to some, but ...
He was here referring to me, not them. He was projecting the hostility, and, I'd say, he's creating it by doing so. His mails to me were gratuitously hostile, very apparently angry that anyone would dare question what he is doing, and he was holding on to that, because I'd stopped pushing the point, entirely. Were he a professional journalist exposing something significant, if that were all that was happening, he would not respond in this way, he would be courteous and respectful, and would simply continue to do his job.
Because Krivit is making such a point about "fact," I intend to read back over his reports, and compare them, because his later report seemed exaggerated with respect to his first, I suspect that incidents are being magnified in his mind as his mania builds. But perhaps not. It's not "fact" that has been the problem, though some of what Krivit reports as "fact" is speculation and sometimes sketchy interpretation.
And I think it may be necessary to address the errors in his blog, specifically, and in detail.
This is distressing, and if anyone has sufficient rapport with Krivit to effectively warn him about unnecessarily making enemies, please do it! I gain nothing from Krivit's descent into vindictive madness. Nothing.
I don't give a fig about theory, I have no axe to grind against Widom-Larsen. Dardik's Life-Wave sounds like quackery to me, but you never know what will help someone; if there is fraud involved, it should be prosecuted. But Krivit is weakening his position as one who could investigate this and expose it effectively, by losing his balance. I hope he wakes up.
