Re: JSH: Too easy

From: a (a_at_shell3.shore.net)
Date: 06/16/04 

Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 20:30:23 GMT

In article <3c65f87.0406160411.141a31d@posting.google.com>,
James Harris <jstevh@msn.com> wrote:
>What makes you people think that there are not any people who actually
>take a look at my paper Advanced Polynomial Factorization and at least
>wonder if it's correct, who are not you?
>
>Then if they come out and see all this controversy, and all these
>attacks, with so many people insulting me, then isn't it clear that
>the math world is not what they may have thought?
>
>Doesn't it look like maybe you people are more than just a little
>crazy yourselves?
>
>Sure, you call me crazy, but the rest of the world just sees a mess.
>
>If you people were decent then sci.math posters wouldn't have sat
>around attacking that journal, berating its editors, and conspiring to
>do an email attack against my paper, and then carrying it through, as
>if it were nothing.
>
>http://rattler.cameron.edu/swjpam/vol2-03.html
>
>Here you people are the ones who are the most damaging agents in
>attacking "pure math" research. You make the case that mathematicians
>can't just be trusted.
>
>People can now reasonably wonder who they can believe.
>
>My paper steps through a basic argument using mostly basic algebra.
>
>I also have my prime counting function which, hey, counts primes!
>
>People used to believe that prime numbers were important to
>mathematicians, but wait!
>
>Prime numbers don't mean *** to mathematicians, if I do the research.
>
>So maybe none of it really meant anything at all to you, anyway.
>
>After all, many of you do get paid. You have houses, and wives, and
>cars.
>
>You could just be in it for the money.
>
>Who knows?
>
>In a world where people don't know, how can they trust?
>
>You people attacked my paper and got it yanked, when none of you can
>cite an error in the paper, and those of you who attack it, like Hall,
>Magidin, and Decker throw up a lot of smoke as you work to obsure the
>truth.
>
>But, you see, it becomes obvious that mathematicians know how to throw
>up a lot of smoke to obscure the truth. If here, why not elsewhere?
>
>Why do I dislike "pure math" so much? I don't dislike pure math, as I
>think it's important for intellectual pursuits wherever people might
>want to go, but I figured out a while back that what many of you call
>"pure math" is just a way to line your own pockets.
>
>Without oversight, cliques develop within, where a paper can get
>published in some obscure area just for credit. Students learn how to
>get with the "right" group so that they can always get something
>published, knowing that no one will really check.
>
>The math world gets ever more corrupt, and no one can check.
>
>The chief editor didn't tell me anything wrong with my paper. The
>sci.math posters who emailed didn't even bother to talk about the
>arguments in the paper itself, but sent a more convoluted argument, as
>they know what works.
>
>It worked on you people.
>
>It didn't matter when I tore Hall's claims apart and showed that he
>had a circular argument as you people don't care about the truth. You
>don't care.
>
>But that truth comes out, and the world that has supported you, can
>stop, and you can pride yourselves on insulting me, as if you won
>something, while the funds continue to dry up, as people stop
>believing in you.
>
>It's too easy to lie in today's math society. It's too easy for
>mathematicians to say what suits them in certain areas, like algebraic
>number theory.
>
>It was too easy for those posters to get my paper yanked for
>mathematicians to think that people can keep believing.
>
>It's too easy for you to pat yourselves on the back as if all you have
>to do is insult me and quickly send emails to journal editors.
>
>You destroy your welfare state as you destroy your credibility.
>
>
>James Harris

James, what's it going to take for you to seek some help? A few moments
ago you were considering using *weapons* to get the attention you crave!

Please, it's not that big a deal. Just look up Mental Health in the
yellow pages, make an appointment, and describe what just happened to
you in the last few days.

I know you think I'm trying to berate you here, but I'm not. I know
many people with similar problems. Just make one phone call and show
up.

The worst that can happen is you'll waste an hour of your time.

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