The preponderance of evidence indicates that it was Gleick. That’s certainly the way I’d bet. As commenters note, is this enough to justify a lawsuit?
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The preponderance of evidence indicates that it was Gleick. That’s certainly the way I’d bet. As commenters note, is this enough to justify a lawsuit?
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Discovery could be very interesting. The “Trying to get blood from a turnip” aspect would be irrelevant.
But would we really want to go there?
Since the guy has already admitted to committing a federal offense (it’s called wire fraud and it put Kevin Mitnick behind bars for many a year), it’s not that big a stretch to think he might be capable of forgery. He had the means (the social engineered documents gave him the right background material), the motive (he’s going after an “evil” group bent on destroying the planet), and the opportunity. So it isn’t beyond the realm of possibility that Gleick hasn’t been completely faithful to the the scientific method here.
Here’s the thing that struck me about Gleick’s version — if he got the forged document first, and then got the other documents to verify it, why did he publish when the valid documents invalidated the forgery? Other observers spotted the problems very quickly and presumably, if that was what Gleick was doing, he should have as well.
The thinking is that he figured no one would read the real documents, when there was the one “blockbuster” summary document.
I think the fact that the apparent forgery names Gleick as the skeptics’ most significant nemesis, and Heartland appears otherwise to never have heard of him, is probably the best evidence that he’s the author….