APOLOGY EXTRACTED FROM URPE!

The following quarter-page apology, extracted from the "Union for Radical Political Economics," appeared on the front page of the Fall 2002 URPE Newsletter (Vol. 34, No 1).

 

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Earlier, we obtained the following statement from the URPE Steering Committee, and the Managing Editor and Editorial Board of the "Review of Radical Political Economics ," the American physicalist organ. This statement was published on the last page of the "Review of Radical Political Economics," Volume 34, No. 1 (Winter 2002) and on p. 3 of the Winter 2002 issue of the URPE Newsletter.

STATEMENT BY URPE STEERING COMMITTEE, HAZEL DAYTON GUNN, MANAGING EDITOR OF RRPE, THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF RRPE:

Dr. Andrew Kliman believed that Hazel Dayton Gunn disseminated a claim that he had violated professional ethics by publishing an article in another journal while it was still under review by the RRPE. We wish to acknowledge that when he submitted a revised version of the article in question to another journal, the manuscript had already been rejected by RRPE. However, a misunderstanding arose after Dr. Kliman requested an appeal of the original rejection. The matter has now been settled and the editorial board has removed the sanction denying Dr. Kliman the right to submit articles to RRPE for publication. There was no intention to inflict harm on Dr. Kliman.

 

Many thanks to Anne Jaffe -- my dynamite attorney -- for her heroic efforts in the battle against suppression!

 

 

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EXCHANGE BETWEEN ERIC NILSSON AND JOHN ERNST ON THE URPE / RRPE STATEMENT*

 

Eric Nilsson was a member of the Editorial Board of RRPE that issued the above statement.

Where's the beef?, by enilsson, 17 February 2002

Andrew Kliman has absolutely no evidence that URPE/RRPE has suppressed him.

Andrew Kliman has merely asserted that he was won a victory over suppression. But what is the evidence that he ever faced such suppression? There is NONE.

Andrew Kliman has absolutely NO evidence that he has ever faced suppression by RRPE. If he does he should SHOW US THE EVIDENCE.

Where is this evidence Andrew? Where's the beef?

It is dishonest to claim you have evidence for such a claim when you have absolutely no evidence for it.

If you can't come up with the evidence everyone will know you are lying.

Eric Nilsson

ooo

Suppression, by John Ernst, 17 February 2002

Eric Nilsson [PEN-L:22916] challenges Andrew Kliman to produce evidence of suppression at the hands of URPE/RRPE. Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary, 2nd edition, gives the following definition of "suppress":

"3. to prevent or prohibit the publication of ...."

So Nilsson is demanding proof of the obvious.

Nilsson: "Andrew Kliman has absolutely no evidence that URPE/RRPE has suppressed him."

URPE/RRPE: "the Editorial Board has removed the sanction denying Dr. Kliman the right to submit articles to RRPE for publication."

Nilsson: "Andrew Kliman has merely asserted that he was won a victory over suppression. But what is the evidence that he ever faced such suppression?"

URPE/RRPE: "the Editorial Board has removed the sanction denying Dr. Kliman the right to submit articles to RRPE for publication."

Nilsson: "Andrew Kliman has absolutely NO evidence that he hasever faced suppression by RRPE. If he does he should SHOW US THE EVIDENCE."

URPE/RRPE: "the Editorial Board has removed the sanction denying Dr. Kliman the right to submit articles to RRPE for publication."

Nilsson: "Where is this evidence Andrew? Where's the beef?"

URPE/RRPE: "the Editorial Board has removed the sanction denying Dr. Kliman the right to submit articles to RRPE for publication."

Nilsson: "It is dishonest to claim you have evidence for such a claim when you have absolutely no evidence for it."

URPE/RRPE: "the Editorial Board has removed the sanction denying Dr. Kliman the right to submit articles to RRPE for publication."

Nilsson: "If you can't come up with the evidence everyone will know you are lying."

URPE/RRPE: "the Editorial Board has removed the sanction denying Dr. Kliman the right to submit articles to RRPE for publication."

John Ernst

ooo

Suppression, by enilsson, 17 February 2002

John Ernst writes,

>Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary, 2nd edition,
> gives the following definition of "suppress":

>"3. to prevent or prohibit the publication of ...."

I don't think this definition supports your claims.

Did RRPE "prevent or prohibit" anyone to publish a paper. No. RRPE declines to publish many papers, but this is not suppression. There are many other publishing outlets: RRPE has never tried to stop anyone from publishing a paper in a different journal as far as I know. Even if RRPE decided never to publish anything written by, say, Milton Friedman, this would not constitute suppression as RRPE would not stop Milton from publishing somewhere else .

How exactly does RRPE "prevent or prohibit" anyone from publishing their work in another journal?

Eric Nilsson

[emphases added – AJK]

Nice save, Eric! You really showed the URPE / RRPE to be the shining models of pluralism we know them to be!

When the Inquisition expelled the Jews and Muslims from Spain, no one tried to stop them from living somewhere else. When the modern proletariat was created by the landowners kicking the peasants off the land, they didn’t try to stop the peasants from living somewhere else. … Need I go on?

When the URPites say this kind of thing PUBLICLY, in their DEFENSE, you realize just how deeply rooted their totalitarian mentality is. URPites Macht Frei!

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* The exchange took place on the PEN-L list. The messages were http://csf.colorado.edu/forums/pen-l/2002I/msg01806.html , http://csf.colorado.edu/forums/pen-l/2002I/msg01814.html , http://csf.colorado.edu/forums/pen-l/2002I/msg01818.html .

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