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Speaking for myself as a non-academic scientist
April 7, 2008 by Fred Bortz, 1 year 30 weeks ago
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Jin He,
First of all, there is no "Einstein camp." There are people who find his work compelling and interesting and spend a lot of time exploring its implications, but no serious scientist believes any theory to be beyond challenge.
Like David, I'm not an academic scientist, though I spent 20 years of my working life in an academic environment, much of it in liaison work between researchers and other professionals (sponsors, educators, etc.)
I suspect that the deletion you refer to was probably an error that needed to be corrected, but you are so upset about it that you can't see the error.
In any case, I have experience working with editors and publishers. If they own the copyright, there is little you can do. If you have the copyright, you should have been offered the chance to approve or disapprove before publication.
In this case, it sounds like the correction was necessary for the paper to be published.
But in any case, it is an issue between you and your editor. Ranting and spewing insults, as you did here, just makes you look like a jerk with a huge chip on his shoulder.
If that description fits, then you need to change the way you interact with others. If it doesn't fit, then you need to figure out why you acted like a jerk with a huge chip on his shoulder in this one case.
By the way, you might want to look at a recent book I wrote for high school and college libraries, Physics: Decade by Decade in the 20th-century science set from Facts on File (2007).
Fred Bortz -- Science and technology books for young readers (www.fredbortz.com) and Science book reviews (www.scienceshelf.com)