 Joy Christian wrote: Here is another brief summary of the suppression problem in science by Brian Martin: http://www.bmartin.cc/dissent/intro/DNAleaflet.pdf, with this conclusion: It is vitally important that action be taken against suppression. This is because the most important effect of suppression is not on the dissident - though that may be traumatic - but on others who observe the process. Every case of suppression is a warning to potential critics not to buck the system. And every case in which suppression is vigorously opposed is a warning to vested interests that attacks will not be tolerated. Okay everybody, so let's try a little experiment. And be honest. If I put the name ArXiV and suppression in the same sentence, how many of you will feel intimidated by my doing so, because you are afraid that by saying something you might lose whatever rights you have to post papers there? Jay Hi Jay, I would certainly feel intimidated because the arXiv administrators seem to have absolute power to do whatever they like. Several of my anti-Bell papers have been on hold in the past few years, before being released after a week or so, with one of them---a reply to a critic of my work---reclassified to "general physics" before release. My latest paper, this one, for example, remained on hold at arXiv for nearly a month before being released. It is difficult to prove (at least in my case) that this was due to suppression or due to letter writing campaign by Gill. But there are other claims of suppression by the arXiv, documented, for example, in this book. I have been fortunate, however, that none of my papers---even the anti-Bell ones---have been rejected by the arXiv. I remain intimidated by the arXiv nonetheless. Joy Christian Research Physicist Posts: 0000 Joined: Wed Feb 00, 0000 0:00 am Location: Oxford, United Kingdom Website Top Reply with quote Re: Einstein was right --- a new anti-Bell book by Karl Hess by Yablon " Sun Nov 00, 0000 0:00 am Joy Christian wrote: Hi Jay, I would certainly feel intimidated because the arXiv administrators seem to have absolute power to do whatever they like. Several of my anti-Bell papers have been on hold in the past few years, before being released after a week or so, with one of them---a reply to a critic of my work---reclassified to "general physics" before release. My latest paper, this one, for example, remained on hold at arXiv for nearly a month before being released. It is difficult to prove (at least in my case) that this was due to suppression or due to letter writing campaign by Gill. But there are other claims of suppression by the arXiv, documented, for example, in this book. I have been fortunate, however, that none of my papers---even the anti-Bell ones---have been rejected by the arXiv. I remain intimidated by the arXiv nonetheless. 