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

On Sun, 15 Jun 2025 10:36:39 +0000, J. J. Lodder wrote:

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

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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)
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So I would like to see the About the Author section,
to see if the claim that he is Van Flandern is justified.
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One never knows, even LaurenceClarkCrossen may provide
some useful information, once in a while,
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Jan
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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.

I Google searched the other day and the AI said it was by Van Flandern.
Today it says: "AI Overview
It appears you're interested in the book "The Einstein Hoax: The
Disastrous Intellectual War on Common Sense" by H.E. Retic, which is
sometimes associated with Tom Van Flandern"