>>> Posting number 3923, dated 12 Mar 1999 16:38:05 Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 16:38:05 +0100 Reply-To: Discussion of Fraud in Science Sender: Discussion of Fraud in Science From: Luis Gonzalez Mestres Subject: Action against scientific fraud and plagiarization MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi there, Theory is O.K., but ACTION is also good from time to time. Here is the letter I have just sent to the Chief Editor of Scientific American. I will keep you informed. Included is also a short e-mail to Elsevier, whose TAUP 97 Proceedings operated a last-minute political purge of one of my papers while publishing one by Glashow with similar results (but several months after my first papers containing these claims). Best regards Luis Gonzalez-Mestres ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Luis.Gonzalez@lapp.in2p3.fr virtuel2@caramail.com http://www.multimania.com/virtuel2 (in French) http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/4605 (in English) http://www.paisvirtual.com/universitaria/investigacion/luisgm (in Spanish) http://members.xoom.com/LluisGM (in Catalan) eGroups User , problemes_des_scientifiques@egroups.com, http://www.eGroups.com/list/problemes_des_scientifiques eGroups User , harcelement_professionnel@egroups.com, http://www.eGroups.com/list/harcelement_professionnel See also: http://www.admiroutes.asso.fr/ACTION/courriel/recherche/index.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Page web de l'Intersyndicale du LPC: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/intsynd-lpc site miroir: http://www.citeweb.net/virtuel2/intsynd/index.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------- HERE FOLLOW MY LETTER TO SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN AND, JUST BEFORE, MY SHORT NOTE TO ELSEVIER ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 09:54:48 +0100 (MET) From: Luis Gonzalez-Mestres To: c.schwarz@elsevier.nl Subject: Scientific plagiarization, Elsevier and TAUP97 Proceedings I do not think you need any comment on what follows (a letter to the Editors of Scientific American). Regards Luis Gonzalez-Mestres ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 13:01:14 +0100 (MET) From: Luis Gonzalez-Mestres To: editors@sciam.com Subject: LETTER TO THE EDITORS (concerning an article by George Musser) LETTER TO THE EDITORS To the Editor in Chief Scientific American Sirs, The January 1999 issue of Scientific American (article "Cosmic Power" by George Musser, p. 17) incorrectly states: "It is also conceivable that there is no Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin cutoff after all, as Sidney Coleman and Sheldon L. Glashow of Harvard University speculated in August. But if so, special relativity does not apply at high energy" The idea that a possible violation of Lorentz symmetry, undetectable through low-energy experiments, may be at the origin of the apparent absence of Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin cutoff, was developed at length in my 1997 papers. For the first time, in physics/9704017 of the Los Alamos electronic archive and in physics/9705031 , published in July 1997 in the Proceedings of the 25th International Cosmic Ray Conference (Vol.6 , p. 113). The title of the later is: "Absence of Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin cutoff and stability of unstable particles at very high energy, as a consequence of Lorentz symmetry violation". Another of my papers on the subject is, for instance: physics/9712047 , published in the Proceedings of the College Park Workshop of November 1997 (AIP Conference Proceedings 433), p. 148 . With my best regards Luis Gonzalez-Mestres Physicist at CNRS IN2P3, France Personal address: 17 rue Albert Bayet, appartement 1105, 75013 Paris, France