From: William Treurniet <wtreurniet.nul>
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:57:08 -0500
Archived: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:41:17 -0500
Subject: Re: It's Just Not Science


>From: Alfred Lehmberg <alienview.nul>
>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <post.nul>
>Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:35:19 -0500
>Subject: Re: It's Just Not Science

>>From: William Treurniet <wtreurniet.nul>
>>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <post.nul>
>>Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:55:33 -0400
>>Subject: Re: It's Just Not Science

>>>From: Jason Gammon <boyinthemachine.nul>
>>>To: post.nul
>>>Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:42:05 -0400
>>>Subject: Re: It's Just Not Science

<snip>

>>>Also, are you self-publishing?

>>I guess you could say that. If I thought a geophysics journal
>>would publish results about earthquakes based on a model of the
>>Mayan calendar from a non-geophysicist working without the
>>cachet of an academic or research institution, then maybe I
>>would take the time to submit a paper.

><snip>

>I suspect that no one has to qualify, explain, or remotely
>apologize - even in the explanatory sense - for the gift of self-
>publishing, Mr. Treurniet.

>Indeed, I further suspect that this boon of the capability to
>self-publish is perhaps a _reaction_ of sorts.

>See, perhaps this new actuality of self-publishing is the
>offended _reaction_ of "such" - ollective consciousness? -
>lately _appalled_ at what a traditional scientific, editorial
>entity, publishing house, peer review, or mainstream critique...
>has either "let passed" or "restricted" through its conflicted
>"filters," allowing, to our credit, the "end run" of these
>aforementioned damaged and very _corporate_ entities.

>It may be that these aforementioned entities, who _regularly_
>demonstrate their cowardice, lack of imagination, facile and
>self-interested pecuniary concerns, intellectual bankruptcy, and
>presently reigning supreme, are put on well-deserved notice by
>this ability to speak-out entirely apart from some mainstream
>"OK" to do so.

>I'm a PC guy, though I've a huge appreciation for Apple. It's
>Apple, you see, who's kept the PC remotely on its toes, or we'd
>all have boxes of brain-dead garbage only _masquerading_ as
>computers.

>You're an Apple computer, Mr. Treurniet, and, appalled at an
>obviously failing system, I aspire to same. Such may be so.


Thank you, Mr. Lehmberg, for that fine analysis in support of
self-publishing.

William



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