Edmund Storms wrote:
"Full text papers are posted when they are submitted in the correct format and contain credible information. Like any journal, we try to apply some common sense to what is made available as full text. This is not censorship any more than a paper being rejected by a journal is censorship."
I agree with this policy 100%, and I do not care what Mallove or Swartz said about it. I will not hand a baseball bat to Robert Park and ask him to please hit me over the head with it! It is a shame that CF is so political, but it is, and we must pay attention to politics, image and public relations.
The claim that we are "censoring" is ridiculous. As I told Gene, there is plenty of room on the Internet, and nowadays people find papers using Google, so it hardly matters where they are uploaded.
Storms compares LENR-CANR to a journal, which it does resemble to some extent. But I often say it more closely resembles a library. Libraries are less selective than journals. They will put a book on the shelf even when the critics pan it, or few people are interested in reading it. However, they are somewhat selective. An engineering library does not stock cookbooks, and it will not stock an engineering textbook which is clearly full of mistakes and absurdities.
Libraries have a limited amount of space, and so do we. At the new ISP, LENR-CANR.org has 1 GB free space, so we can fit many more papers in, but there is a limit. Also, it does take some effort to prepare papers.
Swartz complained that our database records of his papers are inaccurate. Does he think we have ESP, and we are magically aware of all that he publishes? Unless an author contacts us with new information, corrections, updates or web site links, it is unlikely we will hear about these things.
- Jed
