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Mediator intervention

I spoke to Jack on the phone, and we've reached an understanding. I've unprotected his user:JackSarfatti account and reminded him that he'll have to follow our guidelines. He's authorized me to delete his "legal threat", for example.

When I unlock the page, I'm going to move the "disagree" and "crank" sentences from the intro. They belong further down. Uncle Ed 16:16, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

They are a large part of his notability, and such widely held views belong in the intro. They could be toned down a little, I'm not married to mentioning the crank award either. --fvw* 16:25, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

His reputation as a crank (one which extends far back beyond the creation of the internet, see the "paraphysics" section) is the primary reason that he is notable, and IMO must be mentioned in the intro in some form -- the exact wording is another matter. if changes to the intro form part of some sort of "deal" or "understanding" with Sarfatti, they are improper -- he has and should have no veto power over the content here. DES 16:33, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Of course. Is the current intro ok with you though? --fvw* 16:38, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

It is after the edit I just made to it. DES 16:48, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Wildly incorrect?

I agree "wildly incorrect" isn't a good way of putting it, but we need something stronger than just "incorrect". Incorrect also covers "you forgot a minus sign on page 23", which this goes far beyond. Anybody got any other suggestions? --fvw* 16:58, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

I agee. Saying that his critics call him a crank does convey the general tone of those who oppose him, I suppose. I don't think "wildly" was so bad, given that it was celarly a view attributed to his net critics. I can think of other adjectives, but none are any more neutral than "wildly" except maybe "very". The fact is that thsoe who object to Sarfatti's views do not have a neutral attitude about him, and we should not pretend that they do, but we should be careful to attribute these views properly, to his critics. DES 17:04, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Let's give this guy a fair shake. Does anyone know what Martin Gardner has said about him? Uncle Ed 17:38, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Gardner regards him as a crank and a dupe. Or at least he so described him in the chapter from Science: Good, Bad and Bogus, where he clearly regarded Sarfatti as part of the Bogus section. He also mentions in that chapter that Sarfatti's agent for selling Space-time and Beyond to Dutton was Ira Einhorn; that Sarfatti later tried to get his name taken off a re-issue of this book; that Sarfatti assumed (or at least said) that his physics background made him fully qualified to asses the merits of Uri Geller's claims (which he initally considered valid, but later dismissed); that he was at one point backed by and claimed to be a "warm personal friend of" Warner Erhard and supported the claims of EST, but latter was at ods with Erhard and EST. I think that Gardner wrote about Sarfatti in a later work as well, in the same negative vein, but I am not sure of that. I have S:GB&B at hand, and can provide quotes from it if anyone wants them. DES 20:32, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

What is "wildly incorrect"? That is another DEFAMATORY VAGUE SMEAR. Be specific. God is in the details. The fact is no one here is competent to discuss the details of my physics theory - not even Chris Hillman. He tried and failed completely. Now not everything I say in physics is correct every time. There is tremendous complexity in my argument archived here. So which part is wrong? All of it? PROVE IT! Or, is something else meant? It is defamatory to say I was regarded as a "crank" etc even before the Internet. That is a serious allegation. Where is the evidence? Who wrote it? When did they write it? Why did they write it? Have most of you people no concept of good scholarship, how to to research? Your methods are so shlock, so sloppy, so superficial, like you all have attention deficit disorder - how can you presume to be so arrogant as to think you can write an ecyclopedia of any value? Never have I seen so much arrogance coupled to so much cluelessness and sheer incompetence in digging out the real facts.

DESIegel is a blatant liar above. Gardner NEVER wrote that I was a "crank" or a "dupe". I was on a CIA undercover mission as an unwitting "Useful Idiot" during that period of time as my book "Destiny Matrix" describes. Also do a careful reading of what Siegel is saying above. What does it prove?

On page 95 of the Avon Discus pb editon of Science: Good, Bad, and Bogus, Gardner wrote: "Was it a 'repeatable' experiment as Sarfetti's release states? Perhaps repeatable in front of PhD paraphysicsts, but not in front of knowledgable magicians. (footnote 3 cites Houdini and Confessions of a Psychic) Indeed Geller's methods are both old-fashioned and well-known. The intersted reader can learn most of them by reading the references cited in notes 2 and 3." This passage refers to the passage, on page 94, where Garner quotes Sarfetti as stating "My personal professional judgement as a PhD physicist, is that Geller demonstrated genuine psychoenergetic ability at Birkbeck, which is beyond the doubt of any reasonable man, under relatively well-controled and repeatable experimental condtions." ( footnoted to Science News vol 106, July 20 1974 page 46.) I belive that these two passages, taken togehter along with the rest of the chapter, justify summerizing Gardner's view of Sarfetti as being a "dupe" even though he did not use that exact term. DES 19:33, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

On page 102 of the same volume, Gardner writes: "There are two traits that characterize the true Gellerite. He is a person of enourmous gullibility, the gullibility strenghened by an enourmous will to belive. And he is person incapable of recognizing the absurd. (If he is a physicist, i would add a third trait: The egotisim of beliving that he is competant to detect fraud.)" While Gardner did not explictly label Sarfetti a "true Gellerite", I think the implication is fairly clear from the chapter as a whole that he so regarded Sarfetti. DES 19:39, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

On page 111 of the same volume (Science: Good, Bad, and Bogus) Gardern writes of Sarfetti "In recent years Sarfetti has been promoting an invention, for which he has pendign patents, desigend to transmit coded information faster than light. I know of no other physicist who thinks it will work." I think the tone and content of this passage are fairly summed up by the word "crank". DES 19:56, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Note that none of the above establishes that Sarfetti was wrong about anything, at best it establishes that Gardner thought Sarfetti was wrong, was a crank and a dupe of Geller. But all i did above was to quote Gardner's published work, and to summerize it, I think quite fairly. I am not a "blatant liar" for correctly quoting and fairly summerizing Gardner's views, while accurately attributing them to a specific publiashed source. If Gardner changes his veiws later, or published other views of Sarfetti in conrast to those here quoted i am not aware of them. If Sarfetti was in fact on a mission from the CIA (why publicly supporting Geller would have aided such a mission I fail to see, but that is beside the point), Gardner was either unaware of this, or chose not to mention it. His published views of Sarfetti do not reflect it. I was asked "Does anyone know what Martin Gardner has said about him?". I responded, I belive fairly and accuratly, with a summery of Gardner's published views. if these views were inaccurate, that does not change the fact that Gardner expressed them. I now ask for an apology for having been called a "blatant liar" by Sarfetti. Sarfetti asks what the other matter I mentioned proved? Was i trying to indicate guilt by assocation? It is true that havign been associated with Einhorn and Erhard proves nothing about the validity of Sarfetti's views. But the fact that Gardner chose to report these facts in print does say something about Gardner's view of Sarfetti. Perhaps Gardner was tryign to use guilt by assocation. But if so that only confirms his nagative view of Sarfetti, although it may also reduce the worth of his view in soem minds. In any case these facts were citesd in the same article I was using as my source, so I repeated them to give the flavor of that source more accurately. DES 19:56, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

PSI WARS!

1) Martin Gardner and the whole CISCOPS crew at Scientific American were a Lefty Cabal, all members of the American Communist Party in their youth as was Phillip Morrison one of my professors at Cornell - as was Oppenheimer's wife at least. See The Venona File released by the KGB to the CIA's Herbert Romerstein for the general description of the deep penetration of the KGB into the American Left that I was on the periphery of. This basic information was given to me by Neo Con Pit Bull, Stephen Schwartz, author of "The Two Faces of Islam" who converted to Shia Islam. Schwartz and I have had a bitter split over Michael Savage of The Savage Nation, but that is another story. The same is true of almost the entire Old Guard of CSICOPS. Their basic attacks on paranormal research was politically motivated. I have a CIA memorandum from early 60's from Richard Helms calling for the Clandestine Services (AKA CI) to study the paranormal because the Soviets were using it. Martin Gardner & CSICOPS were helping the KGB in debunking the investigation of the paranormal by the CIA. It is a well known fact that the SRI operation, that I collided with in 1973 - and I have a tape to prove it - was a CIA undercover operation. Indeed the Spook in charge was the late Harold Chipman who I worked with in the 1980's and my book "Destiny Matrix" has the documentation to prove it. Martin Gardner was a science writer without any advanced degrees. His debunking was basically politically motivated.

2) Ira Einhorn WAS my book agent in 1974. SO WHAT CRIME AM I GUILTY OF BECAUSE OF THAT? DESiegel SPINS that into some kind of CRIME that PROVES I am a "kook" or a "crank" - he stops at calling me a "Kike" or a "Subhuman", but his intent is clear.

The words "crank", "crackpot", "kook" are used by the mean spirited people we see here exactly like the words "Kike" & "Nigger" etc have been used. They are used to ABUSE, DEFAME, DEBASE and HUMILIATE and only a SOCIOPATH will not understand that. Are you all sociopaths? What's the matter with you people? Have you no sense of shame, of decency? If Misplaced Pages is to be a useful instrument of culture then it should forbid the use of all such emotional words that are simply weapons designed to cause pain. No references to the goofy Crank.Dot.Net or Alt.Kooks. should be used as credible sources.

3) I never dismissed Uri Geller's authenticity. James Randi met with me privately at the time ~ 1974 or so and twisted my arm because he was buddy buddy with Phillip Morrison one of my physics teachers and basically they threatened my prospects for future employment in academia. I have been recently with Uri Geller in London on two occasions and I think he has real ability. This is not the place to go into that. it will be in my book "Qabal."

4) It is a fact that I spent a lot of personal time with Werner Erhard, he gave me thousands of dollars. There are many living witnesses to this such as Fred Alan Wolf, the star of the film "What The Bleep Do I Know?" and Saul-Paul Sirag and others like Jagdish Mann. More details are in my book "Destiny Matrix". The politics of what split me up with Werner Erhard are labrynthine and will be in my book "Qabal". They involve the death of John Belushi from cocaine, the release of Tim Leary to us at Esalen in 1976 and other covert intelligence undercover matters dealing with the KGB at Esalen. As I say the real truth here is Cloak and Dagger Looking Glass War and one day will no doubt be a gripping TV series. Some of the basic story is already published in Destiny Matrix. In any case DESiegel's analysis above is INCOMPETENT, SLOPPY, and any real scholar can see through it. It's SHLOCK! My God, he cannot even spell Werner Erhard's name correctly.

Remember I had an Ivy League education at Cornell when it meant more than it does now. I have a Masters and PhD from the University of California. I have been exposed up close and personal to some of the greatest intellects of the 20th Century. I have been a professor at San Diego State University - and you dare call me "crank", "kook" and "crackpot" for having an open mind on the weird stuff, the Twilight Zone of the paranormal and the alien? I fear for the future of America that is quickly devolving into The Stupid Society - indeed the whole world like that Wikian from Singapore. Except for Uncle Ed, so far most of you FLUNK THE COURSE, you have not raised your own bars high enough. Your world is flat - like a punctured tire! I cast pearls before swine because not one of you can really comment intelligently on even one of the physics gems in my equations in the archive. CH is allegedly too medicated to make a real refutation - or so my agents have informed me.

User:Jack Sarfatti 5:23 PM, 12 October 2005 (PCT) the previous signature had been piped to "DES" which could have implied that the above were my words, which is not the case. DES 20:39, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

To repond to the above points in order: 1) The CIA is hardly a source for peer review of science. If it is the case that they belived in the paranormal as a possibly useful technology (a claim I have often seen made, but never well documented), that does not prove that it in fact has any value. In any case, whatever the "political" views of the people involved, I think it is well established that the various investigations and publications of CSICOP (Committe for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal) were motivated by a desire to expose unjustified claims and foster a climate of critical thinking. That does not, of course, prove that their critiques were always or even usually correct (for greater openness, I have long been a subscriber to Skeptical Inquirer and a member of the Philadelphai skeptics organization, which may color my views.) DES 20:31, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

2) I did not say that associating with Einhorn was in any way a crime, nor was it. I sad that Gardern reproted this fact, because it indiacted the flavor of Gardner's expressed veiws of Sarfetti. As a practicing Jew, i am most unlikley to call anyone a "kike" or "subhuman". To call someone a "kook" or the like is to express a judgement on that person's actions and expressed views, not on his religion, ethnicity, or social status. Just as to call someone a "liar" is to express a judgement on his motives and the accuracy of his statements. DES 20:31, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

3) Gardner reported (on page 104 of my copy of S:GB&B) that on 19 November 1975 Sarfetti issued a press release, which was published in Science News in which Sarfetti said "On the basis of further experince in the art of conjuring, I wish to publicly retract my endorsement of Uri Geller's Psyco-energetic authenticity. I do not think that Geller can be of any serious interest to scientists who are currently investigating paraphisical phenomena." Did Gardner quote you inaccurately or out of context? If not, wouldn't you aregee that this statement sounds a great deal like having "dismissed Uri Geller's authenticity"? If you said this when you didn't mean it because your "arm was twisted" or because you feared for your future employment in academia, that is not my fault. (nor is it documentd, other than by ypur statment, as far as i know.) It is also a very serious charge to make against two generally respected people, one of them your own former teacher. But in any case, I based my statements on the published record, and I cited my source. I have the book in front of me at the moment, and I invite anyone to confirm its contents. DES 20:31, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

4) I am sure the story of your interactions with Werner Erhard is complicated, and that the facts I gave above don't do it justice. I didn't claim that they did. I was merely summerizing the brief account given in the Gardner article, again in order to indiacte the way in which Gardner veiwed you (or at least wrote of you) when the article was published. DES 20:31, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

While I do not have a PhD in physics (or indeed in any subject) I do have an undergraduate degree in that subject, I am an associate member of Sigma Xi, I have been an officer of a professional society (ACM), I have had articles published in professional venues, I have been the editor for professional conference proceedings and I maintain a fair reading knowledge of physics on the "informed non-professional" level. Also, my father and my grandfather were both college professors in the sciences, as is my brother. I have a fair notion of academic standards and wha constitutes scientific evidence, and scientific discourse. DES 20:31, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Oh, and i am a notoriously poor typist, and transpositions are not uncomon in my typing. Make of that what you will. I apologize for misspelling anyone's name. DES 20:39, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

October 2005 legal threat

For whatever reason, I received the following legal threat via email today:

Date: Oct 12, 2005 12:54 AM
Subject: Misplaced Pages e-mail
From: JackSarfatti (sarfatti@pacbell.net)

I have filed the following complaint with the appropriate legal authorities:

The Wikimedia Foundation is registered as a non-profit corporation in the State of Florida.

The Board of Trustees of this Foundation have allowed vicious lies, smears, slander and libel about me to appear on their website and they have repeatedly prevented me from defending myself.

Please note I am involved in USG National Security work and what these people are doing is detrimental to US National Security. The Wikimedia Foundation, wittingly or unwittingly I do not know, is aiding the terrorist cause.

Sincerely

Jack Sarfatti, Ph.D. physicist
San Francisco, CA

Did anyone else receive a copy of this? Hall Monitor 22:03, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

If it hurts our security to call a kook a kook, or a crank a crank, then we are in deep trouble. DES 22:11, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

This is a good example of what I mean about the WIKI hypocrisy, the DOUBLE STANDARD. This guy is clueless. He is merely a hack programmer with no credentials, with no knowledge of the advanced physics in which I have a PhD from UC, can deeply insult me here, but if I call him an SOB or worse, I am the one breaking the rules and he, innocent little darling, is not? THIS IS PRECISELY WHAT I OBJECT TO! Some of you guys are no better than Joe McCarthy calling an innocent man a Communist, or a Red Neck calling a Black Man a "Nigger". Are you all blind! Calling a PhD physicist a "kook", a "crackpot", a "crank" is the SAME as a Nazi calling a Jew a "Kike" or SUBHUMAN. Wiki shoulfd ABSOLUTELY forbid this kind of defamation. It's a BLATANT HATE CRIME and only a MORAL IDIOT will fail to see that. ] 4:41PM, 12 October 2005 (PCT)

Are you claiming that no PhD physicist ever held such unjustified views as to be fairly describd as a "kook"? If so, i disagree wth you. Do you deny that characterizing someone as a "kook" or a "crank" is to make an allegation about the soudness of his views, that is, to make a judgement, not unlike your refering to me as "clueless" and a "hack programmer with no credentials". I did not characterize your personality, your ethics, nor did I level any ethnic slur at you. In fact i didn't even call you a kook, I said that others have verifiably done so, and that we should report that fact. I will expand on my statment above -- If even calling someone a kook falsely is "aiding the terrorist cause"; if our national security depends in a significant way on not "insulting" people doing non-public work for the U.S. Government, then the U.S. is in a very sorry state indeed. DES 20:52, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

I talked on the phone was him subsequent to his sending that. If he makes no more such threats, I consider the matter closed. Uncle Ed 00:21, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

I don't, and Ed Poor does not have the authority to make a final determination on behalf of the foundation, the wikipedia community, or individual contributors other than himself. His view carries weight, but it is by no means final. There is a clear policy against making legal threats on wikipedia or against wikipeda or its editors while also continuing to post here, and the above quoted messge violates that policy. Has Sarfetti said that he has withdrawn, or in fact never filed, the suit threatened above? DES 20:52, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Yes, that is correct. That matter is closed.

Next matter, Chris Hillman says a Google Search shows that many people have written that my formula

B = (hG/c^3)^1/2'd'(Phase of Vacuum)

is "nonsense". Well I can't find anything like that on Google. I challenge Chris Hilman to produce the exact quotes.

JackSarfatti 5:43PM, 12 October 2005 (PCT)

Outrageous Vandalism of Jack's writing!

HELP! MAY DAY! MAY DAY! Where is Uncle Ed now that we need him? Someone has repeatedly REMOVED the following from this page in VIOLATION OF WIKI RULES. That person should be BLOCKED!

This is what has been VANDALIZED more than once in several versions

The above leaves out very important facts that were deleted when I put them in. It is seriously incomplete and again gives a totally skewed picture of who I am, what I think and my role in the world.

Please provide the full citations that GyroGearLoose only provided incomplete references to. Likewise, the refs above are less than complete because they were copied from the SF Comical article; please fix. GangofOne 21:26, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Well if people had not vandalized all that detailed info in the first place that would not be necessary would it? Double standard. They broke the rules and called me the real victim here the "vandal". Saul-Paul Sirag and Creon Levit at NSAA AMES have all those details. I have them somewhere. When I find them I will put them in. But for now as reprinted in my book Super Cosmos p. 25 on Amazon My discovery of the recently observed SUPERSOLID was published in PHYSICS LETTERS Vol 30A, No 5 3 Nov 1969 months before Nobel Prize Tony Leggett published his similar prediction. The title of my paper is "DESTRUCTION OF SUPERFLOW IN UNSATURATED 4He FILMS AND THE PREDICTION OF A NEW CRYSTALLINE PHASE OF 4He WITH BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION. Pages 23 -26 have quotes from real BIG SHOT physicists about my work that someone vandalized because it refuted their libel or slander and smears that I am merely a "kook" and a "crank" and a "crackpot" - these are not personal attacks? Huh?

"Dear Jack: Congratulations! What greater pleasure can a physicist have than see a long range prediction finally come true. David" David Finkelstein on March 26, 2005. Finkelstein emeritus from Georgia Tech

Also on Feb 16, 2005

"Jack, Your solid He4 superfluid paper is wonderful! You actually did something once of very great importance - and apparently you did not realize this. This paper is a precursor to quantum gravity, and much more important in that regard than string theory (you can quote me). George" George Chapline, Jr Ed Teller's Golden Boy at Lawrence Livermore for many years, PhD in physics from Cal Tech.

"To whom it may concern, The Glogower Susskind paper of 1963 which introduced phase operators for a quantum oscillator was in direct response to discussions between Glogower, Susskind, and Jack Sarfatti. Sarfatti's contributions were significant. The correct attribution should be to the 'Glogower, Sarfatti, Susskind' operators. Sincerely, Leonard Susskind" Professor of Physics, Stanford University written on Dec 31, 2004

All three of these reports were vandalized off the article on me and replaced with a false claim from I think Chris Hillman that my co-worker Alexander Burinski in Moscow said that my formula

B(curved spacetime tetrad) = (hG/c^3)^1/2'd'(Goldstone Phase of Higgs Field)

was nonsense. Burinski refuted that false allegation allegedly made by Chris Hillman? Instead they let smears by alt.Kooks and other unqualified people stand in a prominent place and erased the above remarks by important physicists! Now that' the truth.

Now as to my Goldstone paper with Stoneham later head of Theoretical Physics, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, Didcot, Berks (see photo in my autobiography "Destiny Matrix" on Amazon. The American Institute of Physics in 1980 or so published a Resource Letter on Symmetry in Physics citing that paper as noteworthy.

You can ask Ray Chiao at Berkeley Physics Dept on how my laser filament paper influenced his early experiments. You can ask Creon Levit at NASA AMES about out oft-cited paper on applying Bohm's quantum potential to molecular structure computer simulations.

Nobel Prize physcist Brian Josephson has been similarly smeared like me because of his interest in the paranormal and cold fusion. Even John Wheeler has been smeared because he uses literate language and metaphor that rankles the hacks who can barely formulate a sentence and hide behind unreadable jargon. To say I use jargon is Pot calling Kettle Black. I am a much clearer writer than most.

Finally my paper explaining the universal slope of the Regge trajectories of the hadronic resonances as tiny Kerr black holes with strong short-range gravity G* ~ 10^40G on 1 fermi scale was published by Herbert Frohlich in 1973 in his journal "Collective Phenomena". It caused Abdus Salam (Nobel Prize) to invite me to ICTP in Trieste, Italy 1973-74. You can ask historian of physics Jagdish Mehra about that. He was there. BTW I was tutored in group theory at Cornell by Robert Brout who I later met again in Brussels in 1973 when I visited Prigogine. Yuval Neeman and others in Israel are working still on this idea connecting QCD to strong short-range gravity. You can also ask Eshel Ben-Jacob head of the Israel Physical Society about me. No, Wikis for shame, for shame! This has been a vicious smear against me perhaps politically motivated because of my national security work. I do not know, but others may well find out. Also my adventures in the weird - paranormal, UFOs have been part of a long-standing covert intelligence operation involving American, British, French, Israeli and other Intelligence organizations. Some of this is explained in all three of my books since 2002 all on Amazon. To focus on my early adventures as a young man 30 years ago as if that's the whole story is clearly a gross distortion.

Also I wrote almost all the physics parts of Gary Zukav's best seller (millions of copies) "Dancing Wu Li Masters". I did not write the goofy New Age philofawzy in the book. That was all Gary. Also it is insulting to say Author House is "self-publishing" - the context in the global smear spin of the campagin to defame me, is that somehow this makes the books illigitimate. Everyone knows the economics of publishing is changing and that Author House is the in the vanguard because of the takeover of publishing by Mega Corporations diluting the quality of literature to the level of Wal Mart. How hypocritical since Wiki is the epitome of Self-Publishing - is it not? ] 4:01PM, 12 October 2005 (PCT)

Jack Sarfatti does NOT "believe" in UFOs

I DO NOT BELIEVE IN UFOS. I DO NOT BELIEVE IN PARANORMAL. I DO NOT BELIEVE IN ANYTHING! As a scientist I am a skeptic and I DISTRUST FAITH and BELIEF. Therefore saying I believe in UFOS is NOT TRUE. It is SIMPLISTIC and DEFAMES me by reducing my subtle mind to the level of the person who wrote that false allegation! Capisce? I PLAY WITH IDEAS! I am not Usama Bin Ladin on JIHAD to DEFEND THE FAITH! I have discarded many wrong ideas such as the superluminal communication device that Martin Gardner mentioned. My God that was 30 years ago! What other bones in the closet next I wonder? I, and friends of mine, received anonymous demented hate mail from someone in Springfield MO essentially accusing me of being the real Ira Einhorn!

The Cave in Planet of the Apes

My God! Most of the Pharisees here, The Pundits here, my self-appointed Inquisitors here are simply blinded by my Light, my ALIEN BRILLIANCE, My Genius, My Daemon, My Demiurge. See Plato's Allegory of The Cave. I have been out of The Cave a long time and you are all Cave Men. I am like Charleton Heston in Planet of the Apes! I am Prospero to your Caliban!

] 8:21PM, 12 October 2005 (PCT)

Above, you say: "3) I never dismissed Uri Geller's authenticity." Now you say "I DO NOT BELIEVE IN PARANORMAL." Please reconcile. GangofOne 03:31, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Do you have a WEAK MIND.? Can't you understand English? Folks are dumb where you come from. They never had no learn'in. You do not have any idea of how SCIENCE WORKS and you dare to JUDGE ME? A scientist ENTERTAINS hypotheses. Given my experiences with Uri Geller the most probable explanation is that he can bend metal with his mind. This is not the place to explain HOW I came to that conclusion. The point is I COULD BE WRONG ABOUT THAT! There is more evidence for Ur Geller's PK than there is for STRING THEORY! There is more evidence for UFOs and Aliens then there is for LOOP QUANTUM GRAVITY! All judgements in science are TENTATIVE pending further evidence and further understanding. That is true of EVERYTHING in science. I don't BELIEVE in ANYTHING. In other words I DO NOT HAVE ABSOLUTE FAITH in ANY IDEA like Usama Bin Ladin has in ALLAH or the Evangelicals have in THE SECOND COMING and APOCALYPSE & THE RAPTURE? Do you get the distinction yet or is this too subtle for you poor Tit Willow?

If I am a "crank" then you are a Country Bumpkin.

Mikado. You believe that the most probable explanation is that Geller can bend metal with his mind. GangofOne 09:44, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

The UFO Aviary

Now Dan Smith is involved in National Security stuff back in Washington DC. I think it's clear who is saying what?

On Oct 12, 2005, at 7:26 PM, Dan Smith wrote:

"Jack,

The more we learn about the world, the more complicated it seems, and the more things we realize that could go wrong."

10-4

"Now, with the visitors on the scene, our world has suddenly gotten a lot more complicated, and sure enough, we are finding many more things that could go wrong, having to do with how they got here and what they might do while their here, viz. the possibly unlimited PK powers."

10-4

"In a recent message you noted how the Earth seemed to be on the verge of destruction. I don’t want to belittle the paranoia; fear can be an excellent motivator, just look at your constructive efforts to protect us from the bad aliens."

10-4

"However, too much of a good thing can turn against us if the fear gets to the point of paralysis."

No danger of that from my end. Speak for yourself.

"Allow me then to interject a more moderate point of view."

Bah! Humbug!

"A useful analogy here would be an ecosystem. What we see is the amazing tenacity and creativity of life under the rudest of shocks, and the most extreme conditions. Life has seemingly prospered up until very recently when we have begun to wonder if the advent of Homo sapiens will threaten the whole system. Is it any coincidence that just in our time of peril the fact of a cosmic ‘ecosystem’ is suddenly being impressed upon us? "

10-4

"We are being made fully aware that we are being visited by a great variety of sapient creatures from the far corners of the world and beyond. Yes, there is evidence of clashing cultures down here and out there, but, based on your own physics, we have to be amazed that our biggest complaint to-date is the evident stealth of our visitors. If they would just incinerate a few more buildings, like in the movies, fewer folks would think we were nuts. "

10-4

"Just when our own systems seem on the verge of failure, the cosmic system makes the scene. Shouldn’t we break out the champagne? "

Always! Did I not play Alfred in Fledermaus?

"Just one minor glitch. The MJ folks also remain in stealth mode. Why all the tiptoeing? Isn’t it more than a little creepy? "

Well it can mean several things:

1. They are all dead - at least brain dead.

2. They don't really have anything - it's all a RUSE like in Wizard of Oz

3. They are simply scared because they don't understand how it all really works. That's where I come in. I am at the very CORE of MASINT! http://qedcorp.com/book/psi/hitweapon.html Remember BBC's Dennis Bardens of MI6? telling me I was "In the thick of it" Cambridge, Blue Boar Inn 1974 prior to U.London Uri Geller tests with David Bohm, John Hasted, Arthur Koestler, Arthur C. Clarke all in same small room at Birkbeck with Uri, Schippi & Brendan O Regan. The meeting Martin Gardner debunked in Science, Good, Bad & Bogus as an alleged agent for the Soviet KGB IMHO. All of CSICOPS started as a KGB Cabal. I bet that's in The Venona Files? Maybe I am wrong, but I doubt it. It all fits what Dennis Bardens told me

"Jack, first I want to tell you that I am a Qabalist. It is MY DUTY to inform you that we are in the midst of a PSYCHIC WAR RAGING ACROSS the continents between THE SOVIET UNION AND YOUR COUNTRY and you are to be IN THE THICK OF IT."

Now why did he tell me that? Was he just kidding around? Remember I had been to SRI and I have the TAPE on computer to prove it. Soon it will be on the WEB for all to hear! Then I meet Werner Erhard, Uri, Puharich et-al and the rest is history distorted by Martin Gardner and other KGB curmudgeons and grumpy old men like Robert Park. Robert Conquest of The Hoover basically did not trust the physicists who built the bomb - my teachers. They were almost all contaminated by KGB associations from Oppenheimer on down.

"Suddenly the phone rings. "

1953 http://stardrive.org/cartoon/spectra.htmo

"It seems that your complaints about the Aviary ‘incompetence’ have ruffled a few feathers."

That was my CLEAR INTENT!

"What is your problem, someone wants to know."

What's my problem? What's my problem? Are you talking to me? I'm the only one here. It's not MY PROBLEM it's their problem! It's time that THEY $#&^ or get off The Pot right? If they can't take the heat, then they should get out of the kitchen. What a bunch of weak pukes. What a bunch of pussies- eh? How did Colin Bennett put it? Prissy Queens all a flutter in their tutus? ;-)

"It’s mainly about the physics, says I. Oh, well, he’s just talking to the wrong folks. Hal is not the only physicist in the group, it turns out. So who should Jack be talking to? We’re not going to tell him that. Does that mean I have to critique him single-handed? Guess so. "

It means that the "physicists" don't really KNOW WHAT IT TAKES. I have caught them with their pants down and their hand in Uncle Sam's cookie jar. NO MORE NO BID CONTRACTS! I am calling in The Rico Act and The Patriot Act! The Tenors are in town and we are taking over their territory. They have grown too soft and complacent. They piddle as Rome burns. Capsice?

"I don’t know how much you want to make of it, but there it is.

Dan"

From: Jack Sarfatti Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 5:58 PM To: Dan Smith Subject: Re: Play it again, Jack

On Oct 12, 2005, at 7:06 AM, Dan Smith wrote:

"Could you please provide an explanation for the psychokinetic bending of a spoon.

Jack,

Are there then any limits on the powers of psychokinesis?

Dan"

Russell

goes on to quote these two limericks

illustrative of the metaphysics of

the 'amiable Bishop Berkeley':

There once was a man who said, 'God

Must think it exceedingly odd

If he finds that this tree

Continues to be

When there's no one about in the

Quad.'

Dear Sir,

Your astonishment's odd;

• I* am always about in the Quad.

And that's why the tree

Will continue to be,

Since observed by

Yours faithfully,

God."

Contrary to popular opinion I am NOT GOD in The Quad! That is an empirical question isn't it? Look at Q in Star Trek. Is that possible? Perhaps. Remember Roddenberry was influenced by Puharich. It's all a matter of how tight you can get the phase-locking between your mind and the vacuum. The point is I am developing a new language, a new paradigm to discuss these issues. We are still in the early stages.

Rome was not built in a day you know.

Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 2:26 PM To: Dan Smith Subject: Re: Play it again, Jack

Generally & ROUGHLY speaking, the GENERAL idea is simple.

B = k(hG/c^3)^1/2'd'(Phase of Vacuum - Phase of Mind Field of Psychic)

B = curved tetrad field controls the space-time structure of the metal.

i.e. Einstein's metric field is

g(curved) = (1 + B)(flat)(1 + B)

Consciousness controls the modulating Phase of Mind Field.

My formula above is over simplified of course. There will be a propagator i.e.

B(there-then) = Integral over active area of "brain" of psychic(Feynman Propagator(there-then|here-now)B(here-now) )

The local zero point energy density & pressure in the metal is

~ /\zpf ~ (effective coupling area)^-1cos

There will be a propagator version of this for action-at-a-distance as well. This is good enough for now OFF-THE-CUFF in a matter of a few seconds. This is a post-quantum non-computable transmission from UT. Capsice.

"ASK AND YE SHALL RECEIVE!"

Here are the KEYS OF ENOCH! :-) i.e. The Key to The Mystery of Qabala

IT Space-time structure is a BIT Vacuum Phase Modulation Effect like in a Hologram (e.g. Bohm-Pribram).

IT FROM BIT

means, fundamentally, at geometrodynamic level is the SUPERSOLID ODLRO eq.

B = (hG/c^3)^1/2'd'(Vacuum Phase)

this is like Bohm's SUPERFLUID ODLRO eq

v = (h/m)Grad(Phase of Superfluid Order Parameter)

e.g. Feynman Lectures on Physics Vol III on Superconductivity.

This is Magick without Magic.

This is what Jack Parsons was looking for in "Strange Angel". it's what they have all been looking for through the ages.

This is The Final Secret of The Illuminati, the Cosmic Trigger. This is what Carlo Suares meant when he said to me in Paris in 1973 (20 years after 1953 http://stardrive.org/cartoon/spectra.html)

"Jack, you are Heir to The Tradition."

No coincidence that Yuval Neeman spent a lot of time with in presence of Max Jammer talking about the importance of "Sarfatti" to Jewish History.

All those who viciously attack me personally, I do not mean intelligent correction of any errors I may make, are Enemies of The Jewish People. It's that simple. They are also Enemies of the American National Security State.

As Tony Smith has pointed out, we are dealing here with powers more powerful than nuclear. Powers both mental and physical. Uri Geller is a key part of this whole story of CONTACT. Ask Saul-Paul Sirag to explain it to you. JackSarfatti 9:25PM, 12 October 2005 (PCT)

POV: needs attribution

Cut from intro:

Critics often characterise his work as being wildly incorrect and describe him as a "crank". These views, and the reputation derived from his advocacy of them, are major reasons why Sarfatti is notable.

Please provide references for the above. All I could find was a blogger named David Hertz:

Sarfatti is universally reviled in the physics community. Sarfatti is a loud and obnoxious crank and he gets his panties yanked up over his ears (atomic wedgie!) on a regular basis when he posts to sci.physics. Sarfatti isn't a heterodox scientist posting controversial material. Sarfatti is a crank, spewing gibberish, and is probably mentally ill.

If that's the best we can do, we'd better say that:

• Blogger David Hertz called Sarfatti "a crank".

But this harks back to notability. Is a random, uncredentialed blogger someone we want to be quoting for an encyclopedia article of enduring value? Uncle Ed 04:31, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Reference 2 above does not support the charge that I am a crank etc. In fact it is from a book by Robert Anton Wilson "Dr. John Archibald Wheeler and Dr. Jack Sarfatti have offered even more radical offshoots of this notion. Dr. Wheeler has proposed that every atomic or sub-atomic experiment we perform changes every particle in the universe everywhichway in time, all the way back to the Big Bang. The universe is in constant creation, as in Sufism, but atomic physicists are its creators.

Dr. Sarfatti is working on the theory of information-without-transportation and hopes to develop an FTL system which will indeed allow me to send an email (or its equivalent) to Julius Caesar with all the paradoxes that might result, producing multiple parallel universes."

What's wrong with you people? Can't you get anything right? You guys would fit in fine in The Spanish Inquisition! JackSarfatti 12.02 AM, 13 October 2005 (PCT)

Please review Misplaced Pages:Avoid personal remarkss. Uncle Ed 13:35, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

You're not looking very hard, especially considering much of his infamy comes from USENET, so how about trying Google Groups? Some search results:

• 419 for Jack Sarfatti crackpot
• 328 for Jack Sarfatti crazy
• 253 for Jack Sarfatti delusional
• 199 for Jack Sarfatti nuts
• 191 for Jack Sarfatti kook
• 155 for Jack Sarfatti crank
• 105 for Jack Sarfatti paranoid
• 95 for Jack Sarfatti nut
• 95 for Jack Sarfatti lunatic
• 75 for Jack Sarfatti nutty
• 30 for Jack Sarfatti cuckoo
• 28 for Jack Sarfatti flake
• 22 for Jack Sarfatti nutcase
• 17 for Jack Sarfatti "kook of the month"
• 7 for Jack Sarfatti whacko
• 6 for Jack Sarfatti fruitcake
• 2 for Jack Sarfatti screwball
• 2 for Jack Sarfatti "tinfoil hat"
• 1 for Jack Sarfatti fruitbat

Yes, a lot of overlap and unrelated coincidences, but a quick spin through the top results confirms the essence of the second graf. --Calton | Talk 05:19, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Jimbo and Anthere on avoiding smears

Anthere wrote (on the mailing list):

Please, avoid doing anything which could make us liable of anything, and as Jimbo recommanded just today "Let's please all review the page about him at Misplaced Pages to make sure that it does not contain "vicious lies, smears, slander and libel". Of course, we should do this with absolutely anyone... but here is a case when it is particularly important ;-)

I agree with the above. Uncle Ed 04:35, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

The above shows how incompetent whoever made that Google list is. You can do the same Google test above with almost ANY CELEBRITY and PUBLIC FIGURE and find all sorts of vile trash about all of them. You guys have no conception of what good information really is. Put the President of the United States in there instead of my name what do you get? This is a really stupid exercise by stupid people. All of those citations, that are not by me using the word "crackpot", for example, are from a relatively small number of people with no credentials that I have pissed off when they present me with their not even wrong theories. It's their revenge. I can find no "David Hertz physicist" on Google.

(1) Please Misplaced Pages:avoid personal remarks; I marked 2 phrases which aren't allowed here. (2) Your main point seems to be that All of those citations ... are from a relatively small number of people with no credentials. Uncle Ed 13:42, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Who wrote ":Sarfatti is universally reviled in the physics community. Sarfatti is a loud and obnoxious crank and he gets his panties yanked up over his ears (atomic wedgie!) on a regular basis when he posts to sci.physics. Sarfatti isn't a heterodox scientist posting controversial material. Sarfatti is a crank, spewing gibberish, and is probably mentally ill."? I have lots of political enemies and for you to cite this kind of crap is vicious defamation, if you do not check your sources. I am sure that Jimbo and Uncle Ed will not allow it.

Excuse me for breaking in, but I'm the one who posted Hertz's blog comment here on the talk page. Please understand that I did so, not to support Sarfatti critics, but to describe them. Misplaced Pages needs to describe David Hertz's standing in the science community. All we know about him (as of yesterday) is that he signed a blog entry which criticized Dr. Sarfatti. Uncle Ed 13:42, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Who is David Herttz? I never heard of him. Did he conduct a pole of physicists? Let's see the data? What about the remarks of the 3 physicists above? They are outweighed by "David Hertz"? I can't find him on Google. Anyone can say anything about anybody! You are violating due diligence checking your sources. If by now my words do not show you I am not what Hertz describes then you are simply really stupid.

I agree that negative personal remarks should be omitted consistently no double standard

personal remarks should be omitted --Uncle Ed

Fine, so "stupid people" is a negative personal remark. I agree. But "crank" , "kook", "crackpot" used against me is also a negative personal remark. You say it is not? Well that violates The Rule of Law, IF that is what you say here? That is a Double Standard in which the rights of dissident thinkers are trod over.

SIMPLE LITMUS TEST FOR "CRACKPOT" ...

When scientific errors are objectively pointed out with rational detailed argument and explanation, does the subject retract his error?

If YES, then the subject is NOT a crackpot, kook, crank etc

If NO, then he or she is.

By that test I am NOT a "crackpot". Therefore to use such a slur on me is defamation, slander and libel, because it simply is not true.

Furthermore, it is illegitimate to say that investigation of UFOs and paranormal, consciousness, and cold fusion ipso-facto makes one into a crackpot. By that criterion Brian Josephson, Nobel Prize in physics, Fellow of the Royal Society, Professor at Cambridge University is also a "crackpot" in the same Ship of Fools with me. Now what is wrong with this picture?

Sir Roger Penrose FRS, Professor at Oxford, would also be on board with us by that criterion.

Jack Sarfatti

Negative Spin

The "editors" focus on the negative and never mention my many supporters! Now why do you think that is? I will tell you. Most of the negative stuff about me originated in an old tiff between me and John Baez and his lackeys who include CH. Also I was attacked for attacking Paul Ginsparg who is part of the Baez Inquisition and is, in fact, one of the most hated and feared men in the entire physics community because of his increasingly dictatorial Stalinist control of the Cornell archive. Nobel Prize physicist Brian Josephson has led the charge against Ginsparg. This is the biggest scandal in physics today, CH is part of that problem.

Suppose we stipulate (for the moment) that this account of the tiff and its fallout is true. Our challenge as volunteers writing for this encyclopedia is to put this dispute into perspective. I suggest a strategy of writing a series of unbiased, properly sourced articles on each of the figures in the dispute:

• John Baez
• CH - please spell out full name
• Paul Ginsparg

We also may need to know what's in the Cornell archive. Uncle Ed 13:46, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

FYI: CH == Chris Hillman== User:Hillman. Read all of Talk:Jack Sarfatti for details. arXiv.org http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~bdj10/archivefreedom/main.html "Covert censorship by the physics preprint archive" by Brian Josephson, http://archivefreedom.org/

Tony Smith a real physicist, and a practising attorney mind you, says

On Oct 12, 2005, at 9:49 PM, Tony Smith wrote:

"Jack, I see that your wiki page has been revised. As of shortly after midnight EDT Thursday 13 Oct 05, it said, in the lead paragraph:

'... critics often characterise his work as being wildly incorrect and describe him as a "crank". ... Some of his wide-ranging speculations include UFOs as extraterrestials, reality of some parapsychological phenomena, speculations on faster-than-light communications, and most recently his design for space travel by warping the fabric of spacetime to form wormholes between distant regions, loosely speaking. ...'

Is that OK with you ?""

NO IT IS NOT! These Yokels do not even know that wormholes and warp drives and time travel are discussed in serious physics journals! They think it's only me I guess. Also mention UFOs, paranormal and they stereotype you with a knee-jerk reaction. They seem to have no critical thinking skills at all! Rampant stupidity run amuck. The New Barbarians. Cyber Trash!

"Aside from such prejudicial phrases as "wildly incorrect", I wonder if it is worth the effort to correct the erroneous description of your current UFO propulsion model as '.. to form wormholes between distant regions ...' when it is mostly to warp spacetime in the region of the vehicle using dark energy / Josephson junction techniques."

Exactly! These WIKI "editor" guys are really CLUELESS INCOMPETENT Dilettantes! Tony you should go in and correct it for the record. I am working with Uncle Ed on this. He is some honcho at ABC News I think who has pull with Jimbo Wales. He is the brightest of the lot I have run into.

"On another point, and this is something that seems to me to be important, if wiki is going to quote unnamed "critics" saying that your work is "wildly incorrect", then maybe they should quote me (credentials shouldn't matter, as UNNAMED critics have UNKNOWN credentials) as saying:

"The potential importance of Jack's model is that its dark energy may exceed nuclear energy as much as nuclear energy exceeds chemical energy. Therefore, if the USA fails to explore Jack's model, and if another nation, such as China, Iran, Russia, ... does explore it and find it to be correct and exploit its full potential, then the USA will lose its position as leading superpower, and either be doomed to second-rate status (if the new superpower is relatively benign) or be destroyed like Carthage (if the new superpower views the USA as the Great Satan)."

But of course that's too positive since many of these shlemiels have already made up their minds.

and

"My work, although using an approach different from Jack's, leads to substantially the same results as Jack's, and such mutual confirmation may indicate correctness."

Tony if you go in and correct it and add it, I am pretty sure Uncle Ed will not let them remove it.

"I would like to see the wiki article state what I say immediately above, and to see it have a section in which you describe your model as you have in recent e-mails.

Tony"

Go ahead and do it. See what happens. Thanks.

If the above is a copy of a Usenet newsgroup post, maybe it should go on a subpage of this discussion page - or simply be referenced by a web link. Misplaced Pages talk pages are primarily for its contributors to discuss ways of improving an article. Uncle Ed 13:48, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

More Incompetence & Why is Jack notable?

When I do the Google "Jack Sarfatii crackpot" MOST of those citations are ME using the word "crackpot"!

I further object to: His reputation for holding controversial and non-mainstream views extends back to the 1970s. Although he has a background in physics, critics often characterise his work as being wildly incorrect and describe him as a "crank". These views, and the reputation derived from his advocacy of them, are major reasons why Sarfatti is notable.

Since when is it crazy and "cranky" to hold controversial and non-mainstream views? Think for once. YOU ARE PROMOTING A CONFORMIST TOTALITARIAN SOCIETY in which any one who does not belong to the MAINSTREAM, any DISSIDENT is suspect, is a CRANK! Einstein would be a CRANK back in 1905 you stupid stupid fools! You stupid people, you mealey-mouthed pedants, you Inquisitors who spend your time looking through the CYBER TRASH because you have NO CREATIVE IDEAS of your own, are no better than the Stalinists who imprisoned artists, scientists, poets, and musicians in The Gulag. SHAME ON YOU WHOEVER YOU ARE? You have NO SOUL. You are the WALKING DEAD! Sociopaths!

JackSarfatti 10.59 PM, 12 October 2005 (PCT)

If you're trying to get people to take you seriously as a physicist, and stop regarding you as a crackpot, crank, or crazy, then making lots of rants in which you call people "stupid stupid fools" is hardly the most productive way to go about it. *Dan T.* 11:45, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Jack, I suggest you go through this discussion page and delete the passages I've marked up with strikeout tags. This is not Usenet, it's a website owned by a foundation. This is not a newsgroup, it's a discussion page for an encyclopedia articl.

Two suggestions: avoid personal remarks, and keep the caps lock off.

You've got our attention; now, please learn our ways. Uncle Ed 14:20, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

The Two Faces of Lubos Motl

I did notice that one of the citations was by my friend Lubos Motl of Harvard physics who does call me a "crackpot" not because of any physics ideas but because of my UFO contact experience. This is odd since Lubos also has a "joke" entire website in which he claims to be an alien ET! In any case how will Lubos be affected by the fact that there are high-level people in the US Intelligence Community who take the UFO phenomenon quite seriously?

On Oct 12, 2005, at 10:11 PM, Tony Smith wrote:

Dan Smith said to Jack: "... It seems that your complaints about the Aviary 'incompetence' have ruffled a few feathers. What is your problem, someone wants to know. It's mainly about the physics, says I. Oh, well, he's just talking to the wrong folks. Hal is not the only physicist in the group, it turns out. So who should Jack be talking to? We're not going to tell him that. ...".

IF the Aviary is stupid enough to say things such as "... he's just talking to the wrong folks ..." and then, when asked who are the right folks, saying "... We're not going to tell him that ...",

AND

if the Aviary is significantly representative of the USA intelligence community

THEN

maybe the USA is so fucked up that it deserves to lose its pre-eminent place in today's world.

Tony

PS - I consider the example of "... psychokinetic bending of a spoon ..." to be unfortunate.

Spoon-bending, Uri Geller, etc, has bad connotations in many circles.

What is relevant here is NOT bending spoons in dining rooms.

What IS relevant here is:

1 - building a vehicle that can use dark energy / coherent nanoarrays to travel in ways similar to reports about UFOs. (Whether or not those reports are true is a pointless red herring.)

and

2 - using dark energy / coherent nanoarrays to direct such energy, either as a peaceful energy source or as a weapon, far more powerful than nuclear energy.

PPS - If the Aviary wants to ignore Jack, and to ignore my opinion about Jack's model, then perhaps the Aviary should consider some OBSERVATIONAL support for Jack's model:

Jack's model EXPLAINS the anomalous acceleration of Pioneer spacecraft, and further,it also EXPLAINS the anomalous spin rotation axis of the planet Uranus. (In case the Aviary doesn't realize it, the anomalous acceleration of the Pioneer spacecraft occurs at the orbit of Uranus, and Uranus is the only solar planet whose rotation axis is parallel to the plane of its orbit. Jack's model indicates that is NOT mere coincidence.)

Bohemians and Philistines

I live in San Francisco's North Beach. I bet most of my critics here live in souless places, urban sprawl surrounded by fast food joints part of the lonely crowd. BTW books that mention me signficiantly include: The Star Gate Conspiracy by Picknett & Prince Bohemia by Herbert Gold Cosmic Trigger by Robert Anton Wilson The Dancing Wu Li Masters by Gary Zukav Alien Intelligence by some Brit I forget his name Time Warps by John Gribbon and others I can't recall now.

Also you can here me sing in semi-professional shows when I was younger in music files on http://qedcorp.com/APS/ http://qedcorp.com/London/ http://qedcorp.com/destiny/

Listen to

http://qedcorp.com/book/psi/hitweapon.html and click on html files at http://stardrive.org/cartoon/

JackSarfatti 11.37 PM, 12 October 2005 (PCT)

Now you're getting thoroughly irrelevant. Your place of residence (and that of your critics), and your singing ability, have nothing whatsoever to do with the validity of your theories in physics, or the validity of criticisms of you. *Dan T.* 11:48, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Tone of Lead

It is simply a fact that many critics of Sarfatti are very negative about his theories and speculations. It is also a fact that Usenet is not the usual venue for publishing even highly unconventional ideas in physics. Sarfatti has been considered negatively by many since his involvment with paraphysics dating back to ths 1970s, long before the existince of Usenet, for which I have proveided reputable sources (and can provide more). It is also a fact that were it not for his provocative statements and the largely negative reaction to them, Sarfatti would not be in any way notable.

Now, none of that means that his critics are correct. It is true that many well-known people are strogly attacked, and it is also true that many eventually widely acccepted scientific ideas are considered absurd and crankish early in their history. (Continental drift comes to mind and there are many other examples.) It is possible (although I belive unlikely) that Sarfatti's ideas will be similarly respected in the future. (Of course that fact that many respected theories were once thought crankish does not alter the fact that most ideas thought crankish are always so regarded -- the crank thory that proves correct is a rare beast.)

But the fact is that his reputation as a "crank" or "crackpot" -- albiet one with real credentials as a physicist -- is what makes Sarfatti notable. IMO the lead paragraph MUST say this quite clearly, or we are distoring the facts in fear of a lawsuit -- fear which is quite certianly bogus. It is not actionable to say that people have called him a crank, when they have. It is not actionable to accurately report the general tone of the reaction to Sarfatti, on Usenet and elsewhere. There are those who regard Sarfatti's views quite favorably, and this should also be reported. But in the absence of the controversy surrounding him, Sarfatti would simply be another non-notable person with a PhD. Therefore that controversy must be the main topic of the lead. DES 19:07, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Well put, and I agree. The controversy is the reason there's even an article. Friday (talk) 20:03, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

DES makes a serious FALSE ALLEGATION with NO PROOF

NO IT IS NOT A FACT AT ALL! You cannot produce even one example of that at all! All the negative stuff about me is STRICTLY PERSONAL! You have not provided reputable sources and you have accepted the fallacy that investigation of weird stuff ipso-facto makes one into a "crack pot". That Sir IS A HATE CRIME! And I say YOU ARE GUILTY AS CHARGED and I say you are HARRASSING ME and causing me PAIN AND SUFFERING in the legal sense. You have not given ONE EXAMPLE of any of my PHYSICS IDEAS that qualify as CRANK. And don't say FTL COMMUNICATION as I RETRACTED THAT YEARS AGO! Capisce SIR? Is that POLITE enough for you SIR, or should I say YES MASSA! I know what you are. You are not fooling me. 4:47 PM, 13 October 2005 (PCT)

False Allegation

"Sarfatti has, on occasion, used such claimed government work in order to attempt to silence critics by claiming that any public criticism of Sarfatti is harmful to the national security because it could disrupt this work. He has also threatened to report critics, and owners of Web sites with articles about him not to his liking, to the FBI or other governmental agencies as aiders of terrorism."

The above should be removed. I never threatened to bring in FBI about a website. That is garbled. I mentioned that the FBI was investigating a number of anonymous hate crime letters mailed to me and my friends from Springfield MO on Sept 17, 2005, which happened to coincide with the time when all this started. Also there is not enough positive information. My discovery of the Super Solid is major and the 3 quotes from Chapline, Susskind and Finkelstein. Who the hell do you think you are? Well, I will find out exactly who you are. Tit for tat. Again you defame me and I will take whatever legal measures against you personally if such defamation of me from you persists. Investigations of UFOs and paranormal is not sufficient to smear me with "crank" & "crackpot". I consider what you are doing to be personal harrassment and comission of a hate crime and will seek a restraining order against you if you persist. It is you who distort the facts by citing irresponsible people who have called me those names. It is actionable slander (libel) to emphasize that and to suppress the positive facts about me. In any case I don't think Jimbo Wales and Uncle Ed will permit that. This is not a threat to Wiki but it is a serious warning to Siegel. As it stands now the article is unacceptable because it is skewed to the negative and not fairly balanced with positive facts about me like the quotes from Susskind, Finkelstein and Chapline. 3:23 PM Oct 13, 2005 (PCT)

Jack, please stop the legal threats. Other editors will take you much more seriously if you aren't threatening to take legal measures against them. Thanks. Carbonite | Talk 22:36, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Are you suggesting I should take extra-legal measures? Extreme measures? Surely you do not suggest that? :-)

I think what he is suggesting is that you stop using the threat of legal action as leverage and engage in rational conversation instead of vitriol. If you want to take legal action, stop talking here and just go and take legal action. --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 03:39, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Legal action? Legal action? Are you talking to me? I don't need to take no damn legal action. What are you talking about anyway?

On Oct 13, 2005, at 7:45 PM, Cliff May, Foundation for the Defence of Democracies, Washington DC wrote to Jack Sarfatti:

Walid Phares weighs in:

Cliff

Either suggested suicide: someone gave him the revolver and suggested it's better to trigger..

Or assisted suicide: someone shot him and a press release was issued

Here is what I wrote and said so far

"Top news on al Jazeera and in the Arab world, the officially dubbed "suicide" of Brigadier General Gaazi Kanaan, Syria's interior minister is a high indicator of storms to come. The Security General had ruled Syrian occupied Lebanon for almost two decades. His knowledge of the intelligence and terrorism web is boundless. Some sources in Syria and Lebanon, reacting to the news this morning called the death, an "assisted suicide." Kanaan, according to these sources knew "significantly" about the assassins of former Prime Minister Hariri. He "committed" suicide as the time President Assad would be addressing world opinion and the American public via CNN." Walid Phares

Phares on al Hurra TV: "Syria: General Kanaan's "assisted" suicide?" Phares on al Hurra TV: "General Ghazi Kanaan was the security ruler of Syrian-occupied Lebanon for decades. He has ordered executions, torture, transfer to Syrian prisons and has been in the center of Syrian connections with Terrorist regimes and organization for 30 years. He knew mountains of information on Terror and crimes executed in Lebanon and the region. He was on the UN commission's list of high suspects in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri. His suicide was most likely "assisted."

Original Message-----

From: Jack Sarfatti Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 4:26 PM To: Cliff May

Subject: Re: SYRIAN SADDAM'S SUICIDE? Yeah sure.

Odd, but perhaps not surprising since he was the Syrian Intel guy in Lebanon. Maybe it was payback for the assassination? I am going to check out Greer's Colby story again with my friend who knew him well.

On Oct 13, 2005, at 12:05 PM, Cliff May wrote:

Also (from NR's Corner):

SYRIAN INTERIOR MINISTER'S "SUICIDE" The Washington Times reports: "A Syrian official who declined to speak on the record told the Associated Press that Gen. Kenaan shot himself in the mouth with a silencer-equipped gun." How thoughtful to use a silencer. Wouldn't want to disturb your neighbors down the hall or call lots of attention to what was going on in your office. That would probably be your top priority while blowing your brains out. Posted at 06:19 AM [Jack Sarfatti}

The reference for the above is right on this very page: *Dan T.* 23:32, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

I get justifiably angry when I am attacked personally. You mean you don't? I am Italian from the Mean Streets of New York and I live in an Italian neighborhood in San Francisco. Also what is in the article is false. I do not try to silence legitimate critics talking about my physics ideas. I WELCOME SUCH OBJECTIVE SCIENTIFIC DISCUSSION. IF I MAKE AN ERROR AND SOMEONE POINTS IT OUT I CORRECT IT AND ACKNOWLEDGE THEM! I do attempt to silence critics when they attack me PERSONALLY. Calling me "crank", "crackpot", "kook" is the same as calling me "kike" and anyone who does that to me should think twice about it. That's my code. Correct my scientific errors by all means, but insulting me is like insulting Cyrano De Bergerac and I have a long memory. I will do everything WITHIN THE LAW to get satisfaction for the kind of mean-spirited insults such as are still on the article. In the old days it would have been a duel at dawn. Capisce?

On Oct 13, 2005, at 1:36 PM, Gary G. Ford wrote:

Jack,

On observing Jacob Sarfatti, I quickly perceived in YOU - him - the RIGHT ATTITUDE of Inquiry!

Jack is quick and nimble, persistent and ARGUES HARD, but is not held enthralled with his own past defunct ideas, unlike many Academics who clutch at memory of a few once lit bright straws they beheld!

Jack Sarfatti USES his past Ideas, good, bad, or just part-and-part, as Steps of Learning to Advance onward to Higher Ground,

Readily admitting error when it is suddenly shown apparent, often at his own hand and deeper analysis,

Correcting, recovering, building, moving on, with misfires also as sources of learning, inspiration, as Jack wonders,

"Ok, ok, THAT combo was in Conflict, but what if we changed Item 'A' while leaving Aspect 'B' as it were? What THEN...?!"

Yes, Jack, YOU are THE MASTER MAGICIAN of Theoretical Physics, The Life, Free Flame of Inquiry, while many others are candle wicks sootily burning down, or kerosene wicks shielded by glass chimneys.

Some of the Brightest Others will be seen one day as Welsbach Mantle Enhanced flames, brilliant by virtue of field of inquiry (the Mantle) into which they fell to association, by accident, at the most opportune moment: Heroes of Good Luck!

Jack is out in the Howling WIND, fighting to touch The Face of Truth, yet he KEEPS HIS FLAME BRIGHT!

While others are bugs in academic rugs, warming themselves on memory of their past accomplishments, there is Jack, out in the Storm, fighting for the DEEP TRUTH which will set us free of the Veils of Ignorance/Half-Comprehended, Semi-Intractable Speculations, which flannel the eyes of the Academically Secure.

Keep up the Fight, Jack!

The TIME TO TRAVEL FAR is Coming Near!

Gary, swimp@shaw.ca

Jack Sarfatti wrote:

Thanks for your support. :-) The point is if Wiki puts up anything negative about a public figure then they have to do due diligence check their sources CAREFULLY like NY Times is supposed to do. The research done by my defamers was SHLOCK and of course in the case of CH and possibly others politically motivated as I have a history with CH and his Gang. Fortunately Jimbo Wales and Uncle Ed seem to be on the ball on this. It's OK to say my ideas are out of the mainstream and that I am often attacked. However, the attacks by non-professionals are meaningless. One must distinguish attacks on my character from attacks on my ideas. Attacks on my ideas are OK and indeed are necessary provided that they are not vague smears like pontifications "it's nonsense". An argument must be given and if I see it is correct I will retract. Crackpots don't retract. That's the key distinction. I have retracted on MANY WRONG STUPID IDEAS that pop into my mind such as the particular design for the FTL signaler that Martin Gardner mentioned. It's no disgrace to make mistakes. Covering up mistakes is what is bad. I never do that. I continually ERROR-CORRECT. For my politically motivated detractors to stand up and scream like hyenas "Look! Look! What Jack said!" 30 years ago as if I say it today, is completely dishonest. Every scientist has made mistakes! That's part of science! Unlike my funny friend from UNCLE, Dan Smith, I am not INFALLIBLE! ;-) My detractors, including the one who sent me and my friends anonymous hate-mail from Springfield MO on Sept 17, 2005 (reported to FBI) try to reduce me to some isolated sociopathic psycho without a life like most of them apparently are. I am not alone. I do not have 8 million supporters like Michael Savage, but I am getting there by BEING THERE! ;-) On Oct 13, 2005, at 10:55 AM, david mosier wrote:

Just emailed you an article from Science.com on Dark Energy. Have no idea if it's worthwhile or not. You can figure that out easily enough. Meanwhile, the latest WiKi entries for you seem to be pretty good-if they last. Whoever tried to smear you with the bogus WiKi entries has seen their plan blow up in their faces. By listing all the collected anti-Sarfatti lies and slanders in one place, and calling attention to them, you and others were able to address and refute them one by one, plus put your real bio in place of the slanderous one. If they hadn't done what they did, in the forum they did it in, you wouldn't have had the chance to nail those lies and slanders as efficiently as you (and others) did, and had the chance to get your real bio on WiKi. To say nothing of alerting your friends and supporters who will check regularly to make sure the real stuff stays up, and the bogus stuff comes down as soon as it goes up. They tried to smear you on the Internet but found that on the Internet, as elsewhere, Sarfatti has a lot more friends and supporters than he has enemies and detractors.

  4:03 PM, 13 October 2005 (PCT)

Unacceptable for the article

The following should be removed completely because it is obviously vindictive as well as so garbled as to be not true by not making the relevant distinctions. Any mention of the Kook.Net et-al run by irresponsible nihilists, the Cyber Nazis, is not a credible source and DEMEANS Wiki. Would Britannica put that vicious trash in? Would the New York Times? And still main point is that the article is unjustly SKEWED to the NEGATIVE to SKEWER ME. I am a COMPLEX CHARACTER and that article as it stands CUTS MY LIMBS off! It aides and abets Islamofascism and yes, quote me. Whoever wrote such stuff also in a past life hammered the nails into Jesus on The Cross!

I think the above, as well as your earlier comparisons of your critics to Joseph Stalin, falls into a similar category to the style of argument referred to by Godwin's Law. So, why haven't you brought up Adolf Hitler yet? *Dan T.* 23:51, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Well, he did say "Cyber Nazis". --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 00:17, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

I get the feeling that it's not going to stop anything though. --Apyule 05:39, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

The objectional lines still in the article are:

"Sarfatti has, on occasion, used such claimed government work in order to attempt to silence critics by claiming that any public criticism of Sarfatti is harmful to the national security because it could disrupt this work. He has also threatened to report critics, and owners of Web sites with articles about him not to his liking, to the FBI or other governmental agencies as aiders of terrorism. Criticism

Sarfatti's websites have earned the crankiest rating from the crank.net website, and he has an entry in the net-legends FAQ (See external links below). He was given the Victor von Frankenstein Weird Science Award in December 2004 by the denizens of the alt.usenet.kooks newsgroup " It's enough that people who dig can find that trash in the archives. 4:40 PM, 13 October 2005 (PCT)

Alien Invasion!

I fear for Culture when Robots Rule The Roost David provides the following disclaimer: The proposal to be discussed represents his personal opinions. Although David is employed by LEX2000 Inc., owner of APL2000 Inc., he is not a part of the APL+ language design team. His proposal does not represent official policy of APL2000 Inc. He does not know when, or if, APL2000 will implement namespaces, nor in what form they might be implemented, should that occur.

       For any official statements from APL2000 Inc., see their web

site at www.apl2000.com, send email to sales@apl2000.com, or write to APL2000 Inc., Two Independence Way Suite 100, Princeton NJ 08540. David E Siegel (AKA DES) may be reached by email at siegel@acm.org, or by mail at the address above. 7:54 PM, 13 October 2005 (PCT)

I have no clue what the heck any of the above means, other than that it has some connection with the APL programming language. Just what its supposed relevance is to this article is unclear. And your signature is broken; it seems to be missing a right bracket. *Dan T.* 03:02, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

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