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Giants of Science have no mercy:

http://www.ekkehard-friebe.de/wallace.htm
4. Publication Politics:
"To document the nature of the problem within the US, I would like to
make several quotes from a book on this problem by Ruggero M. Santilli
who is the director of The Institute for Basic Research:
This book is, in essence, a report on the rather extreme hostility I
have encountered in U.S. academic circles in the conduction,
organization and promotion of quantitative, theoretical, mathematical,
and experimental studies on the apparent insufficiencies of Einstein's
ideas in face of an ever growing scientific knowledge. [23 p.7]
In 1977, I was visiting the Department of Physics at Harvard
University for the purpose of studying precisely non- Galilean
systems. My task was to attempt the generalization of the analytic,
algebraic and geometric methods of the Galilean systems into forms
suitable for the non-Galilean ones.
The studies began under the best possible auspices. In fact, I had a
(signed) contract with one of the world's leading editorial houses in
physics, Springer-Verlag of Heidelberg West Germany, to write a series
of monographs in the field that were later published in ref.s [24] and
[25]. Furthermore, I was the recipient of a research contract with the
U.S. Department of Energy, contract number ER-78-S-02- 4720.A000, for
the conduction of these studies.
Sidney Coleman, Shelly Glashow, Steven Weinberg, and other senior
physicists at Harvard opposed my studies to such a point of preventing
my drawing a salary from my own grant for almost one academic year.
This prohibition to draw my salary from my grant was perpetrated with
full awareness of the fact that it would have created hardship on my
children and on my family. In fact, I had communicated to them (in
writing) that I had no other income, and that I had two children in
tender age and my wife (then a graduate student in social work) to
feed and shelter. After almost one academic year of delaying my salary
authorization, when the case was just about to explode in law suits, I
finally received authorization to draw my salary from my own grant as
a member of the Department of Mathematics of Harvard University.
But, Sidney Coleman, Shelly Glashow and Steven Weinberg and possibly
others had declared to the Department of Mathematics that my studies
"had no physical value." This created predictable problems in the
mathematics department which lead to the subsequent, apparently
intended, impossibility of continuing my research at Harvard.
Even after my leaving Harvard, their claim of "no physical value" of
my studies persisted, affected a number of other scientists, and
finally rendered unavoidable the writing of IL GRANDE GRIDO.*
* S. Glashow and S. Weinberg obtained the Nobel Prize in physics in
1979 on theories, the so-called unified gauge theories, that are
crucially dependent on Einstein's special relativity; subsequently, S.
Weinberg left Harvard for The University of Texas at Austin, while S.
Coleman and S. Glashow are still members of Harvard University to this
writing. [23 p.29]"

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