Re: Full Retraction with my Apologies

jstevh_at_msn.com
Date: 04/23/05 

Date: 23 Apr 2005 07:01:17 -0700

José Carlos Santos wrote:
> jstevh@msn.com wrote:
>
> > I sat back, and had lots of fantasies about being famous and doing
> > things like going on Oprah.
>
> Now you sit back and have lots of fantasies of we getting all fired,
> jailed and humiliated in public.

There is a reasonable public expectation that mathematicians do not
deliberately ignore or seek to hide important mathematical information.

And especially a very high expectation that mathematical work of
serious practical importance would not be hidden or deliberately
ignored by mathematicians.

My point is that mathematicians have a social responsibility, and
should expect consequences if they fail to live up to it.

That is, the world quite naturally can hold you accountable.

> > I'd come on and rant a bit at posters and about mathematicians not
> > accepting my work, and challenge people to check for themselves.
>
> Now you rant a lot at posters and about mathematicians not accepting
my
> work.
>
> Big difference.
>
> > So what happened? How am I here today with math results in several
> > areas now claiming that I'm right?
>
> That's because you're a moron, unable to learn or even to think.
>

And people are to think you a brilliant and wonderful person?

I quite specifically step out how I use Usenet.

My interests are in simple approaches to "hard" math problems, where I
also like to talk out various approaches with an expectation of a high
rate of failure.

It's Usenet and math groups so it's reasonable to suppose that a person
should talk out math ideas here, but math society has decided it wants
to make up its own rules, so other posters hound me in replies meant to
distract or mislead as they campaign for me to quit posting.

My full point is that math society is not rational and does not follow
even basic rules, like that Usenet is a free speech area.

That is actually the easiest way for other people to check that
something is amiss with that society, as clearly, Usenet is not what
they're trying to make it into, and how can they be these coldly
logical people who can't even figure out that Usenet is a public free
speech domain?

The problem I think is that some people can call themselves one thing,
and be something else...

James Harris

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