Your position is indefensible, Professor Harnad. Ad hominem arguments have no place in this discussion.
Joe Esposito On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Stevan Harnad <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Joseph Esposito <[email protected]>wrote: > > I don't know Wojick personally, but I must say that this sounds like an ad >> hominem attack. I have no idea what "a publishing interest lobbyist" is or >> whether Wojick belongs to that tribe, but even lobbyists should be engaged >> on the level of ideas. >> > > 1. I don't know Wojick personally either. > > > 2. There is a profound conflict of interest between the publishing > industry and the research community insofar as OA is concerned. > > > 3. Hence interests are most definitely relevant. > > > 4. As I said in the exchanges I posted, Wojick sounds (to me) very much > like a publishing interest lobbyist, but readers will have to judge for > themselves. > > > 5. It came as a surprise to me to find (after the exchange) that the Center > for Media and Democracy > Sourcewatch<http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_E._Wojick>indicates > that Wojick is listed > among the "Allied Experts" of the energy industry lobbyists-controlled Natural > Resources Stewardship > Project<http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Natural_Resources_Stewardship_Project>, > with the implication that he might have been a coal industry lobbyist. > > > 6. But I agree completely with Joseph Esposito that this exchange can and > should be evaluated "on the level of the ideas." (Did you read any further > than the paragraph introducing Wojick, Joseph?) > > > Stevan Harnad > > >> On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Stevan Harnad <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> David Wojick <http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/about/> works part >>> time as the Senior Consultant for Innovation at >>> OSTI<http://www.osti.gov/home/>, >>> the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, in the Office of >>> Science of the US Department of Energy. He has a PhD in logic and >>> philosophy of science, an MA in mathematical logic, and a BS in civil >>> engineering. In the exchanges below, he sounds [to me] very much like a >>> publishing interest lobbyist, but judge for yourself. He also turns out to >>> have a rather curious [and to me surprising] history in environmental >>> matters <http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_E._Wojick>… >>> >>> Dialogue archived at: >>> http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/1027-.html >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Joseph J. Esposito >> Processed Media >> [email protected] >> @josephjesposito >> +Joseph Esposito >> > > > -- Joseph J. Esposito Processed Media [email protected] @josephjesposito +Joseph Esposito
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