Re: Tom Van Flandern's book aninymously criticizing relativity while he was alive.

On 15/06/2025 12:36, J. J. Lodder wrote:

Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> wrote:
 

On 15/06/2025 09:25, J. J. Lodder wrote:

LaurenceClarkCrossen <clzb93ynxj@att.net> wrote:
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On Fri, 13 Jun 2025 20:00:42 +0000, LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:
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"AI: "The Einstein Hoax: The Disastrous Intellectual War on Common
Sense" is a book by Tom Van Flandern that critiques Albert Einstein's
theories, particularly relativity."
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It is published under the pen name H. E. Retic, as explained in the
About the Author section, where he describes Van Flandern's career.

Reading it I find that it certainly seems like it must be Van Flandern's
and it's copyright 1997.

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Do you have verifiable evidence
for H. E. Retic being Tom van Flandern?

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I wouldn't want to lose you (am I wrong?), but could you please
stop feeding the spammers?

 The book: "The Einstein Hoax: The Disastrous Intellectual War on Common
Sense" by H. E. Retic obviously exists.
(you can order it on Amazon for example,
  but I won't spend real money on it)
 So I would like to see the About the Author section,
to see if the claim that he is Van Flandern is justified.
 One never knows, even LaurenceClarkCrossen may provide
some useful information, once in a while,
 BTW, Van Flandern admitted later on that his anti-relativity claims
based on Voyager data didn't hold water.
There has been a lot of discussion on it in the other SPR,
when that group still had worthwhile content.

And who gives a damn??  Aka, spammers and co-spammers, the two
sides of the same mangled fraudulent coin.  Meanwhile, the truth
is that *not even Einstein understood relativity* (I'll give the
man the benefit of the doubt, but not the epoch nor the system):
so I guess I shouldn't be expecting much from you either.
-Julio