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Just found this, so ironic considering there would be no LHC without the work of Crookes. Doing work on web pages a couple of days ago, I noticed that the revisionism is approaching epidemic proportions with many of the pioneers all-but deleted from the history of science. Those who edit Wiki and other web pages continue to deny affiliation with sceptical organisations. It's hard to imagine just what's gained from changing history?
E-mail from Michael Roll to Brian Josephson, February 27, 2003
To Professor B.D. Josephson
Bearing in mind this report [by Thomas Travers] regarding the shoddy work of Dr. Richard Wiseman. Would you please be kind enough to help me put a stop to the outrageous attack on Sir William Crookes that is being shown on television, on a regular basis, to the students of The Open University?
I have written to the Principal pointing out that this giant of subatomic physics, Sir William Crookes OM, FRS, is being destroyed by scientific pygmies. No supporter of Sir William has been allowed to balance this appalling hatchet job that was made by Dr. Richard Wiseman and his fellow parapsychologists. They have all started from the base that the mind dies with the brain in order to appease orthodox scientific dogmas.
The Principal of the Open University has not even acknowledged my letters of protest. He will have to take notice of a letter of complaint from a Nobel Laureate for physics. I have recorded this programme and will be pleased to send you a copy if you have not already seen it. The final word is given to a young female parapsychologist who completely writes off the lifetimes work of Sir William Crookes, and by implication, Sir Oliver Lodge FRS. His writings make it very clear that the study of survival after death must be approached as a branch of physics - that we are dealing with natural and normal forces in the universe.
Michael Roll
http://www.cfpf.org.uk/letters/2003/200 ... r2bdj.html