Plagarism By Cold Fusion Times

[John Coviello]

I, like Jed, have had enough of Dr. Mitchell's Swartz's tone and have put him on ignore because there is already enough negativity in this world, but I had to respond to his slick dismal to my plagiarism charge.    Contrary to his statements, he did not lift the story he printed in Cold Fusion Times this summer from public Internet postings I made about the event.  Even if he did, it is highly unprofessional to, in that case, write a story based on someone else's Internet postings and then attribute the article to that person, without ever running the article by the "author" for content or permission to print the story "as is".  In that case, he would be hijacking my good name and printing something in my name without my permission.  But, he didn't do that.  He will not be able to produce public Internet postings that even closely compare to the story I wrote for New Energy Times (NET), which had a lot of input from Steve Krivit, which he apparently subsequently copied verbatim for Cold Fusion Times without asking for permission from myself (the author) or Steve Krivit (the owner of the article from NET) or giving proper credit the article's owner New Energy Times.  On top of it all, Dr. Swartz neglected to follow the most basic etiquette in the writing field of sending the author a complimentary copy of the issue, even if that author was never asked for permission to use his article or name in the first place, as in this case.   See For Yourself -- The story as it appeared in NET about a month before it was published in Cold Fusion Times   Report of the 2005 Cold Fusion Colloquium at Massachusetts Institute of Technology By John Coviello   The 2005 Cold Fusion Colloquium took place at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., May 21.    The colloquium was dedicated to the memory of Dr. Eugene Mallove, MIT class of 1969. Mallove, who died tragically in May 2004, was perhaps cold fusion's most persistent supporter during the field's darkest years, after the original Fleischmann and Pons announcement in March 1989. The MIT entrepreneurs club hosted the colloquium, the fourth cold fusion event at the MIT campus since 1989.   The speakers at this colloquium were serious scientists. Despite what many skeptics believe, this was not an amateur science conference. The participants were degreed scientists, with long and distinguished science careers in government, private industry and academia. Attendees were treated to a respectful, scientific day of accurate, state-of-the-art presentations on this confusing and exciting new field.   <continued>  http://www.newenergytimes.com/news/NET11.htm#MIT     The story as it appeared in Cold Fusion Times a month later without permission or proper credit (notice how utterly similar it is to the story above, same verbiage with some things cut out, an obvious cut and paste job):   Cold Fusion Colloquium at MIT By John Coviello   The 2005 Cold Fusion Colloquium was dedicated to the memory of Dr. Eugene Mallove, MIT class of 1969. Mallove, who died tragically in May 2004, who was perhaps cold fusion's most persistent supporter during the field's darkest years, after the original Fleischmann and Pons announcement in March 1989.  The speakers at this colloquium were serious scientists. Despite what many skeptics believe, this was not an amateur science conference. The participants were degreed scientists, with long and distinguished science careers in government, private industry and academia. Attendees were treated to a respectful, scientific day of accurate, state-of-the-art presentations on this confusing and exciting new field.   <continued> http://world.std.com/~mica/cftrev12-2.html   See for yourself, but if this isn't plagiarism, it's damn close.  He certainly can't produce a public Internet posting that said anything about the MIT colloquium in this manner, because some of the verbiage was from contributors at NET such as Krivit and was only released in the NET version.   This is the last I will say about this most unprofessional incident of what I perceive as plagiarism and a lack of professionalism when dealing with other people's work.  But, I had to set the record straight.   John Coviello