A libelous Attack on Me
quentin skrabec
Dear Friends
Being a career writer, widely and extensively published scientist, a professional engineer, and an officer and member of twenty-some engineering societies. This is libel, I know you writers, authors will feel my hurt. I prayed to my lifelong patron of my writing the Blessed Mother for guidance
This review is LIBEL and I should sue because it casts doubt on a lifetime of work and questions the creditability of 40 years of research – but I open it up to all of you as an open defense- It unlikely but those you who wrote this “review” will give me it but they owe me at public apology. Because this goes beyond hurt—AND IT HURTS DEEPLY- I have to consider all options.
Note I even asked Alex to call me in the forum before he put this review in writing – As Alex once said to me in an early review “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”
This review is hurtful with libelious accusations – and by their own admission “no EVIDENCE” it is an attack on my lifework, making accusations – I cant believe the lack of professionalism they may want me to leave but I will not and hope a few of you will still work with me and trust my research as original.
I publish review this in the forum to show the unprofessionalism, libel statements, pure disrespect – I have never seen in 40 forty years of publishing – 25 books and over 100 published articles in this field.
This is the actual review submitted to me in LESS 16 hours after submitting to them! – I underlined and bold some things that are not only unprofessional but are LIBEL – there was no AI used and that is a professional attack!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ACTUAL REVIEW follows
“Here are the reviews of your Environmental article you submitted to Vernniana. Even if it was sent anonymously to the peer-reviewers, you were recognized as the author of the article, due to all the messages you are leaving on the JV Forum these last days.
“Haven’t had time to read the text yet, but at first glance Figs. 2 and 6 set off my genAI alarm…
“I read the text and I also have the impression that AI has played a role in its composition (though I have no experience in the matter): endless general statements, no real argument, no evidence of being acquainted with scholarship on the question of Verne and science. Furthermore, it is hard to believe that the author has read Paris au XXe siècle when he speaks of it as Verne's green city model. There are passages that are clearly written by Quentin so as to give a personal touch, but I feel he has gone too far this time.”
Alex sent him a kind personal message on the Forum. I don't know what else we can do.
It's all readable enough, but read like an intro or a conclusion to more substantial treatment, with little direct evidence [ MY NOTE QS like your AI accustions as me]; clearly needing a degree of "europeanisation" and reference to existing studies, as qs realises, since dealing with a mythical american joolsvurn. It's not far from publishable, as a sort of abstract, but I wouldn't like to have to copyedit it, to tease out the underling meaning...
“May I add my own opinion? Jules Verne was NOT an engineer [[[[MY NOTE [ he is indeed not in a certified sense and many famous engineers, such as the US astronauts and I. Asimov have stated – this is a true fair discussion point]]]] . He was a fiction novelist and playwright. When you are dealing with Jules Verne, you should go to the original documents. So far, you used mainly second-hand material, I mean translations in English of JV's work and Vernian studies. Your are lacking of the big part of research and discoveries made by people like Butor, Moré, C.-N. Martin, S. Vierne, D. Compère, O. Dumas, V. Dehs, and many others,. which are the foundations on which further research can be made.”
END OF REVIEW
Finally – I love this group but a few have gone too far in accusing me of plagiarism and AI. I will stay on even with the scarlet letter of assigned to me.
I realize that by writing this I will be black balled by the “inner circle” and blacklisited but I love Verne research to leave the group – and I hope even as a black sheep some might still help me from time to time
With great love and respect for the Forum
Quentin R. Skrabec, Ph.D.
John Lamb
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