The Chaos of El Naschie

13th November, 2008

If you read the December 2008 issue of the peer-reviewed journal Chaos, Solitons, & Fractals, you’ll find an article entitled On the vital difference between number theory and numerology in physics.

Perhaps the editor-in-chief of that journal, Mohammed El Naschie, should start paying attention.

Elsevier are the world’s biggest publisher of scientific journals, and they are by no means universally loved for it. This particular journal has pseudo-scientific form. But for the post of editor-in-chief to become compromised like is an unparalleled indictment.

John Baez, in the comments to his post, adds: “A rather famous mathematician, upon reading this blog entry, has promised to contact Elsevier and pressure them to do something about this situation. We’ll see what happens (if anything).”

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