Mr Valev wrote:

[ a lot of the usually stuff followed by the following lie: ]

>This is an absurdity I have been trying to discuss with people
>for many years - so far my messages acted like to face of Medusa the Gorgon
>- on seeng them everybody get petrified and never reply.
>

Not true.

He has had a great many replies. Consider, for example his message entitled
"Thermodynamic paradoxes"
(http://www.bio.net/hypermail/btk-mca/btk-mca.199705/0082.html) that he
sent on 24th May 1997, which begun like this:

>Dear Colleagues,
>I would like you to help me solve a few thermodynamic paradoxes. I have
>been trying to discuss them with people for many years, but as my claims
>question ultimately the validity of the second law... you can imagine what
>the  reaction was.

No doubt regular readers of his postings will recognize the style. However,
that is not the point, which is that it is simply a lie to say that people
never reply. This message received replies from at least five people in the
month that followed (not to mention that great mass of messages that Mr
Valev himself followed up with). During the year that followed the same
history was repeated many times, and on most occasions people tried to make
some sense of what he said.

Athel



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