David Talbott

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Re: Peratt's Plasma Universe Down
Unread post by David Talbott » Sat Feb 12, 2011 5:38 pm
JohnMT wrote:Dr. Anthony Peratt was to have addressed the SIS symposium on
'Cosmic Catastrophes - Asteroids, Comets and Planets' at Fitzwilliam College,
Cambridge in 2008, but I understand that following a nasty campaign of abusive
emails etc., he was 'warned-off' and had to withdraw.

He was replaced by Rens van der Sluijs, who stepped in at the last minute.
In recent years Tony was indeed scared off by abusive emails and an incredible level
of harassment, the prime instigators being Leroy Ellenberger and Josh Schroeder
(the former "ScienceApologist"). Only those on the receiving end of Leroy's
harassment know the full scale of his attacks and the cost to others. For years Tony
was under relentless harassment, including a broadly distributed email by Leroy,
implying a misuse of funds at Los Alamos and suggesting people write their
congressman. At some point this story will have to be told, and legal action is
virtually certain in due course, affecting even Wikipedia, which unwittingly came to
serve as vehicle for the spread of defamatory statements with no corrections allowed.

The fact that both Leroy and Josh Schroeder continue as Wikipedia editors is the best
indicator of the problem yet to be resolved by Wikipedia management. Leroy, editing
Wikipedia as Phaedrus, presents himself as an objective reviewer. Josh Schroeder, the
prototypical zealot and Inquisitor, has probably entered more disinformation and
misleading commentary into Wikipedia than any other person on Earth.
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