Re: JH is just making fools out of you

From: James Harris is Nuts (nuts_at_jsh.com)
Date: 06/18/04 

Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 19:33:16 +0000 (UTC)

On 18 Jun 2004, Georg Friedrich wrote:

(snip)

>If I could choose between
>
>(A) countless hours wasted by many competent mathematicians in pointless
>arguments with JH in sci.math, plus the resulting pollution of this
>newsgroup;
>and
>(B) an incorrect paper slipping through the peer review process to be
>published and afterward ignored,
>
>I would choose (B) any time.

Ordinarily, I would agree, but we have
a credibility-craving crank.

Why can't James Harris waste his money and
self-publish (as suggested to M. Basti)
or satisfy himself with his blog or
his website? Because I, and maybe others,
expect him to misuse the publication by
that supposedly objective journal to
cause mischief in the mathematical community
outside of this newsgroup.

>On a related subject, I find it strange that the Southwest Journal of
>Pure and Applied Mathematics first published JH's paper and then deleted it from its web site.

(snip)

>GF

Your points were debated ad nauseum in another
thread, with most posters on this newsgroup
agreeing with you (I'm possibly the lone exception).

You and other professional and more rational
mathematicians on this newgroup are, may I
suggest, too professional and too rational, and you
view James Harris as just another newsgroup
poster. I think that is a mistake.

Besides Harris being a crank and other insulting
designations, James Harris is the source, not the
victim, of such shrill discord on this newsgroup.

Regretful, but that's this ugly reality called
sci.math (and other newsgroups James Harris
injects himself into).

James Harris is Nuts(TM)

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