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- From: mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel)
- Subject: Re: A few thoughts on Fabrikant.
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.165411.2805@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
- Organization: Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto
- References: <BtMEFC.Hps@cs.dal.ca>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 16:54:11 GMT
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- In article <BtMEFC.Hps@cs.dal.ca> kumar@ug.cs.dal.ca (kumar yelubandi) writes:
- > There's too much detail in Fabrikant's articles to
- > suggest that they are merely the deluded workings
- > of a paranoid schizophrenic/personality.
-
- I have no training in psychology, but my understanding is that
- paranoid schizophrenics can create quite detailed and often internally
- self-consistent delusions. (If someone who does know something about
- psychology can either confirm or deny this, go ahead.) It is only by
- reference to our common understanding of the world that one can show
- their delusions to be just that.
-
- > Fabrikant seems to be a very capable
- > and intelligent research scientist (ie. the quantity
- > of publication attests to this, as well as the variety of
- > different journals that have accepted his articles).
- > Why then, was he refused tenure?
-
- I thought that he was in a tenure-stream position when all this
- started.
-
- > If a man was so desperate
- > to be heard, why the court injunction to silence him?
-
- In most countries, including this one, there are laws against libel
- and slander. There is no need to assume that anything sinister was
- going on here.
-
- Marc R. Roussel
- mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca
-