Dear Tom, If SA reject the right of reply I would like to invite you to publish it in volume five of Enigmatic Photon, provided my co-editors Vigier and Meszaros agree. I am copying this message to them. You are of course welcome to send it as it is to the website: www.europa.com/~rsc/physics. You may also like to consider "Apeiron" edited by C. Roy Keys, or perhaps Found. Phys., edited by Alwyn van der Merwe. These are refereed but open minded journals of physics. As you may know there have been about thirty comments and replies on B(3) in the refereed international lit., often the right of reply was withheld from me, but owing to the open mindedness of van der Merwe and Keys, replies were published to all polemics. Logically, the critics failed completely to make the slightest dent in the hypothesis. The pressure to conform was so intense that my own group at UNCC published an attack without my knowledge, as is well known. My reply is in Found. Phys. Lett., September 1997. Apparently, tenure and promotion depends on being seen to conform to the old theory, a very sad state of affairs indeed. To the generations of tomorrow, this will seem quite ludicrous. MWE cc colleagues. -------------------------------------- FROM: Tebearden, INTERNET:Tebearden@aol.com TO: (unknown), INTERNET:labounsky#m#_alex@strasys.mdc.com CC: (unknown), FishnChips DATE: 18/12/97 18:54 Re: Re: Yam Rebuttal Sender: Tebearden@aol.com Received: from imo14.mx.aol.com (imo14.mx.aol.com [198.81.19.169]) by dub-img-6.compuserve.com (8.8.6/8.8.6/2.9) with ESMTP id SAA06694 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 1997 18:54:37 -0500 (EST) From: Tebearden Message-ID: Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 18:25:26 EST To: labounsky#m#_alex@strasys.mdc.com Cc: FishnChips@CompuServe.COM Subject: Re: Yam Rebuttal Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Organization: AOL (http://www.aol.com) X-Mailer: Inet_Mail_Out (IMOv11) Dear Alex, No, Scientific has not per se rejected my rebuttal. However, by previous experience (I have sent several things to Scientific American in the past, to no avail) it will not be published. Also, the journal I am associate editor of is not a recognized scientific journal. Most such scientific journals will simply not even publish in the area of overunity EM devices, period. So several ancillary small "unorthodox" publications -- not as technically rigorous and not adhering to the conventional "dogma" -- have sprung up, mostly as a labor of love by an individual. I am associate editor of Explore, one such small journal which, although certainly not as rigorous as Sci Am, does produce a nice glossy publication on good quality paper. The content, of course, is quite varied. At any rate, publication there will still reach the overunity community, though it will reach very little of the orthodox scientific community. Since that is the route, I am also going to add about 8 or so drawings to illustrate the points. So it will turn into an "extensive commentary" -- half article, half commentary. Dr. Evans is that rare exception of a great scientist who also is still open minded, and does not think that everything has been discovered or perfected yet. He also has experienced first hand the backhand slap and suppression often meted out to proper scientists if they attempt to stray from the cherished heartland. Would that there were more such Dr. Evans! Cheers, Tom Bearden