New University - Call for Faculty and Students
PAUL PAWELSKI
In article <C1I7I...@well.sf.ca.us>, sarf...@well.sf.ca.us (Jack Sarfatti) writes:
> VISIONARY PHYSICIST, DR. JACK SARFATTI, APPOINTED TO SCIENCE BOARD OF WORLD
> UNIVERSITY
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> ACADEMIE UNIVERSITAIRE LIBRE MONDIALE
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> WORLD UNIVERSITY
>
{stuff out}
>
> A Scientific Board of top quality scholars coming from both the "Exact
> Sciences" and "Human and Social Sciences" is now being established by Dr.
> Paul A. Gerome of Geneva, Switzerland. Dr. Jerome received his Ph.D. under
> Levi-Straus.
>
{stuff out}
>
> The first official act will be an International Conference using multimedia
> and telepresence. The recording of the Conference will be broadcast by
> satellite. The Scientific Board members will define the new hybrid sciences
> and give them names.
The misnaming of fields of study is so common as to lead to what might
be general systems laws. For example, Frank Harary once suggested the
law that any field that had the word "science" in its name was
guaranteed thereby not to be a science. He would cite as examples
Military Science, Library Science, Political Science, Homemaking
Science, Social Science, and Computer Science. Discuss the generality
of this law, and possible reasons for its predictive
power.
-- Gerald Weinberg, "An Introduction to General Systems
Thinking."
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Colorful, Jack, be careful though, too many of us have too limited of a sense
of humor: excessive play on this thread may cause people to ignore your
thoughts on other threads.
Paul Pawelski
Jack Sarfatti
Please post to other conferences.
Interested parties, faculty and students, forward CV. Degrees will be
granted.
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VISIONARY PHYSICIST, DR. JACK SARFATTI, APPOINTED TO SCIENCE BOARD OF WORLD
UNIVERSITY
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WORLD UNIVERSITY
The European Community Parliament is looking for an ideology of cultural
unity for the twelve countries separated by languages and many other
differences.
A Scientific Board of top quality scholars coming from both the "Exact
Sciences" and "Human and Social Sciences" is now being established by Dr.
Paul A. Gerome of Geneva, Switzerland. Dr. Jerome received his Ph.D. under
Levi-Straus.
He is now in San Francisco speaking to scientists who are potential faculty
enroute to Los Angeles, Hawaii and Japan. He will return to San Francisco
on Feb 20, 1993.
The first official act will be an International Conference using multimedia
and telepresence. The recording of the Conference will be broadcast by
satellite. The Scientific Board members will define the new hybrid sciences
and give them names.
The second act will be the creation of a detailed script on multi-media CD
ROM of the available knowledge on these cross-border disciplines and a
computer programme for students. In addition, a document will be produced
to define the further researches to be realised under the direction of each
hybrid scientist who will be receiving grants.
These grants will be used to create more television programs and
interactive computer programs and to broadcast the information on these
hybrid sciences worldwide through satellite channels.
More information will be forwarded through E-Mail, Internet and Fax to
whomever contacts us and applies.
We are a private non-profit organisation settled in Paris. The operational
company is settled in Luxembourg. The video-audio-book publishing company
is settled in Geneva. The Headquarters are in London.
Daniel A Ashlock
fos...@jed.cs.uidaho.edu
>In article <C1I7I...@well.sf.ca.us>, sarf...@well.sf.ca.us (Jack Sarfatti) writes:
>> VISIONARY PHYSICIST, DR. JACK SARFATTI, APPOINTED TO SCIENCE BOARD OF WORLD
>> UNIVERSITY
>>
What I want to know is: where did Dr. Sarfatti get his PhD, under whom, when,
and in what? Did he create his own university (note, his "press release" was
from himself)?
I want to know, so I can avoid sending any of my students there.
--
James A. Foster fos...@cs.uidaho.edu
Universty of Idaho Dept. of Computer Science
Ed Carp
release", which was (for the most part) composed entirely of unintelligible
gibberish.
And why the hell post this garbage all over the net?
--
Ed Carp e...@apple.com, e...@saturn.upl.com 801/538-0177
"It is your resistance to 'what is' that causes your suffering." -- Buddha
brett mcinnes
:
: Colorful, Jack, be careful though, too many of us have too limited of a sense
: of humor: excessive play on this thread may cause people to ignore your
: thoughts on other threads.
<guffaw>
John C. Baez
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>>In article <C1I7I...@well.sf.ca.us>, sarf...@well.sf.ca.us (Jack Sarfatti) writes:
>>> VISIONARY PHYSICIST, DR. JACK SARFATTI, APPOINTED TO SCIENCE BOARD OF WORLD
>>> UNIVERSITY
>>>
>
>What I want to know is: where did Dr. Sarfatti get his PhD, under whom, when,
>and in what? Did he create his own university (note, his "press release" was
>from himself)?
>
>I want to know, so I can avoid sending any of my students there.
Ulp. He went to U. C. Riverside, where I teach, and got his PhD under
Fred Cummings in the physics department. All I can say is:
1) It was a long time ago and I wasn't around, so don't blame me.
2) Cummings is a fine physicist (whose name is attached to a well-known
set of equations that describes nonlinear effects in multimode lasers),
and apparently he is just as disgusted by Sarfatti's antics as you are.
3) He is, apparently, an isolated case! Sending your students to UCR
will *not* turn them into Sarfatti clones. Honest.
Pegasus
net. Such as facilities for this new institution. The WORLD UNIVERSITY
sounds intresting in concept. But who are on your board of directors
besides your self?
Pegasus
RICHARD L ALTSTATT
>
>
> Please post to other conferences.
> Interested parties, faculty and students, forward CV. Degrees will be
> granted.
> The first official act will be an International Conference using multimedia
> and telepresence. The recording of the Conference will be broadcast by
> satellite. The Scientific Board members will define the new hybrid sciences
> and give them names.
>
> The second act will be the creation of a detailed script on multi-media CD
> ROM of the available knowledge on these cross-border disciplines and a
> computer programme for students. In addition, a document will be produced
> to define the further researches to be realised under the direction of each
> hybrid scientist who will be receiving grants.
>
Bwa hahahahahhahahahahah,
I can't believe this went out on the net ! Did Saffy really
write this? I had no idea he could be this funny. Please, please,
can I have a degree? I want a Doctorate in Exact Science. Then I can
really join the ranks of Mad Scientists Anonomous. Could I get a
grant to study the stuff Safatti puts out on the net. This is great,
it is going on the wall with the home healing methods and the devilbunny
posts.
RA - Mad Scientist (in training)