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Postscientists destroying the One True Science's enemies:

http://bip.cnrs-mrs.fr/bip10/valevfaq.htm
Athel Cornish-Bowden: "Reading Mr Valev’s postings to the BTK-MCA and
other news groups and trying to answer all the nonsense contained in
them incurs the risk of being so time-consuming that it takes over
one’s professional time completely, leaving none for more profitable
activities. On the other hand, not answering them incurs the even
greater risk that some readers of the news group may think that his
points are unanswerable and that thermodynamics, kinetics, catalysis
etc. rest on as fragile a foundation as he pretends. (...) Puzzlement
on this subject extends even to Bulgaria, as B. V. Toshev, head of the
Departments of Physical Chemistry and of Chemistry Education at the
University of Sofia, noted in a message to the Chemistry Education
Discussion List in April 2005, when he asked: "Who is Pentcho Valev?
What is his education? Nobody in Bulgaria knows that. He does not
belong either to the researchers or to the Bulgarian education
community. I even wonder if he is a real man?!" (...) There is
probably no law in science that has been tested so thoroughly, by so
many people, over such a long period. (Why? Because lots of people
would like it to be wrong, and if they could find a loophole it might
well make them very rich; as Benno ter Kuile pointed out, an instant
Nobel prize would be only a minor part of the rewards). None of them
has been able to disprove it, so the only reasonable interpretation
for the reasonable person is that it is true. Mr Valev thinks
otherwise, and there was a great deal of discussion of this during May
to September 1997, during which period Mr Valev’s scheme for tangling
the threads was so successful that you will have great difficulty
trying to follow any of the arguments. Suffice it to say that if Mr
Valev really believed what he was saying he would not be writing
nonsense on this news group, he would be building the machine that
would make him the richest man in Bulgaria (or even the world)."

http://web.mst.edu/~gbert/hoaxes.html
Gary Bertrand: "The Troll disappeared from the Chem Ed Discussion List
around 2007, then apparently re-located to the West Coast and
reappeared in 2008 with a new persona.  This one repeatedly posted the
tired old quotes about Relativity, and responded repeatedly to his own
postings.  Only recently, has he ventured back into the area of
Thermodynamics, where he clearly doesn't understand the postings of
his predecessors. (...) In continuing his silliness from a discussion
above, the Troll refutes the validity of Partial Differential
Equations, while blaming it on the Second Law of Thermodynamics.  One
can prove a lot of things with partial differential equations if the
independent variables are not specified."

The same postscientists freeing the world from the stranglehold of the
One True Science:

http://www.beilstein-institut.de/bozen2004/proceedings/CornishBowden/CornishBowden.htm
ATHEL CORNISH-BOWDEN: "The concept of entropy was introduced to
thermodynamics by Clausius, who deliberately chose an obscure term for
it, wanting a word based on Greek roots that would sound similar to
"energy". In this way he hoped to have a word that would mean the same
to everyone regardless of their language, and, as Cooper [2] remarked,
he succeeded in this way in finding a word that meant the same to
everyone: NOTHING. From the beginning it proved a very difficult
concept for other thermodynamicists, even including such accomplished
mathematicians as Kelvin and Maxwell; Kelvin, indeed, despite his own
major contributions to the subject, never appreciated the idea of
entropy [3]. The difficulties that Clausius created have continued to
the present day, with the result that a fundamental idea that is
absolutely necessary for understanding the theory of chemical
equilibria continues to give trouble, not only to students but also to
scientists who need the concept for their work."

http://mailer.uwf.edu/listserv/wa.exe?A2=ind0910&L=chemed-l&T=0&O=D&P=31671
Gary Bertrand: "Whether or not the Second Law is useless depends on
how you are stating the Second Law.  I said what I consider to be the
Second Law.  And yes, I find the statement that the entropy of the
Universe must always increase to be useless."

Pentcho Valev
pvalev@yahoo.com