Re: JSH: Resolution now possible

From: Wayne Brown (fwbrown_at_bellsouth.net)
Date: 10/18/04 

Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 17:53:17 GMT

Nora Baron <norabaron@hotmail.com> wrote:
> jstevh@msn.com (James Harris) wrote in message news:<3c65f87.0410170613.507bf41f@posting.google.com>...
>
>>though some sci.math'ers have diligently argued
>>otherwise and even actively interfered in the journal process by
>>sending emails to a journal that had a paper of mine, and succeeded
> in
>>cowing the chief editor Ioannis Argyros so that he withdrew my paper
>>without proper cause and without even allowing me to defend against
>>the charges the sci.math'ers made.
>>
>>They broke him completely.
>>
>
> Oh, sure - he's probably reduced to selling pencils on the
> streets of Cameron, Okla.
>
> No. This means nothing to Argyros. He totally screwed up,
> but he swept the evidence out of sight and lied to you about
> it. He goes on as if nothing had happened. If sci.math people
> had had their way, he would have been removed as editor.

James probably will try to quote this out of context at some point, so
please allow me to add this clarification: Argyros did *not* draw the
ire of sci.math because he published James's article. It was the way
"he swept the evidence out of sight" by withdrawing the article *after*
publishing it that prompted people to question his ethics. James insists
on portraying the whole affair as a group of sci.math regulars forcing
an editor to suppress his work. The truth is that those who objected
*wanted* him to leave the paper visible and print *corrections* to it.
Argyros chose to take the cowardly way out and yank the paper from sight,
rather than admit he made a mistake in publishing it. *That's* why so
many people in sci.math were upset with him.

I know you know all this, Nora, but I'm pointing it out again for
the benefit of those who didn't see it happen and might only see the
distortions and lies James posts about the whole situation. 

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