Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: Update: Dr. Swartz has posted the URL of one of his papers on Vortex, > as of about an hour ago. I don't know if it's one of the papers Jed was > considering uploading or not. >
I have not considered uploading any paper by Swartz for the last 10 years. Not since he first threatened me. I have no desire to upload this or any other paper of his. I think this "positional" thesis of his is wrong. However, I am always willing to upload papers for any author, even ones who I despise. My opinion of the author or the paper never enters into it. I am a librarian, not an editor, so I accept anything that has been published. There are many papers at LENR-CANR that I think are garbage -- some really awful. You all know that we have papers by leading skeptics, and you can be sure I disagree with them! If a reader asks me for a recommendation I would not point to a paper I disagree with. That's a different story. People do ask me, just as they ask librarians in bricks-and-mortar libraries. Librarians are allowed to have opinions, but they are not supposed to censor, and I never do. People ask me several times a week, but they download 3,000 to 5,000 papers a week on their own, so I do not have much influence over the readers. I wouldn't want influence. - Jed
