Re: The meetings in Sheffield and France

[Athel Cornish-Bowden <***>]

I wrote:

> At a meeting in Sheffield ... I spoke a little about Rosen, and 
> included the rash statement that few biologists had ever heard of 
> him. This proved to be wrong, as several people told me afterwards 
> that they had heard of him but that they had not been able to make 
> sense of what he was saying,...

to which Judith commented
> I would love to be able to talk to the biologists who have heard of
> Robert Rosen but haven't been able to make sense of what he was
> saying. Please feel free to direct them to me; they are welcome to
> email me or simply read some of the material on the website...

Unfortunately that is not how science advances -- it doesn't happen 
in little semi-private discussions between like-minded individuals, 
but in the public literature. People will not come to you: you have 
to expose your views to public scrutiny, even to public ridicule, by 
publishing them in publicly available journals. Even then you've a 
good chance of being ignored; but if you don't do it you have a 
near-certainty of being ignored.
> PS: I think people may be more aware in France, if a recent email I
> received is any indication. They wanted a picture of Robert Rosen to
> go along with text which was to be part of a big anniversary issue
> of some magazine. The story was about the "giants of the life
> sciences" and Dad's name was in a list with people like Schrodinger!

I can't easily imagine who could be behind this!

athel


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