Dear young (and not so young) impressionable friends of Dark Matter, Thank you for all the kind requests for my PRL paper [1]. Unfortunately, I have to retract the paper, but buying me a beer next time we meet might help me to forget you ever asked for it.
One (!) respondent got it right away, on content, timestamp, and PRL formatting. One other respondent recognized a problem, clearly smelled a rat, but did not quite tell me to take a hike. One respondent became suspicious given the date (but, there IS in fact an April 1st Vol 160(13) in PRL). These 3 fellows are herewith recognized but therefore not allowed to play anymore. The majority of respondents is still in the game: What I wrote [1], fellows, is of course composted matter of the darkest kind (well rotten garbage), albeit carefully crafted in convincing (pseudo)scientific language. That is the way con artists almost always work. Also in Science (pardon, science). So, I encourage you to turn this into an educational exercise: First, let's be Bayesian here right away. What is the prior probability -without having examined the evidence [1]- that a cantankerous curmudgeon who occasionally dabbles around on the CCP4 board all of a sudden conceives an apparently brilliant solution to a problem that has preoccupied true experts for decades? LOW, my friends. Such a strong claim should immediately trigger corresponding scrutiny of the evidence in view of known prior knowledge [2 and refs therein]. Now the question - what in fact is (totally) wrong in that one-page paper [1]? (Those who already know and wisely ignored my posting might hold off for a few days and give others a chance to exercise critical review and a little bit of freshmen physics). Responses (or practice reviewer reports, post-publication letters to the editor) perhaps to me directly, to keep clutter on the board low and to encourage more daring/scathing review. I'll confidentially summarize the best then on BB. Best regards, BR [1] http://www.ruppweb.org/select/Rupp_2011_Phys_Rev_Letters_160_13_B-factor.pdf [2] http://www.ruppweb.org/cvs/br/rupp_2010_JApplCryst_reasoning.pdf ----------------------------------------------------------------- Bernhard Hieronimus Rupp, Hofkristallrat a.D. 001 (925) 209-7429 +43 (676) 571-0536 [email protected] [email protected] http://www.ruppweb.org/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hey voll chillig hier in se lounge but you must sofort aufhoeren zu chillen and stattdessen aufraeuming your wohnzimmer denn it looks a little staubig and se chips on se hofkristallloungetisch are mindestens a year old -----------------------------------------------------------------
