Slander ...

[Jean Charles ABBE <Jean-Charles.Abbe@IRCCYN.EC-NANTES.FR>]

Slander, slander ... If you throw enough mud, some

of it will stick !

Marco Caceci,

from LQC s.I, in Netherlands, following a message announcing the opening

of a position in radiochemistry at IPN Orsay, has diffused a message with

personnal diffamation and insulting the scientific merit of several

persons, of an Institute, IPN Orsay, of an Institution, the CNRS, and of

a whole nation, France.

E-mails reveal as such as dangerous arms in the hands of unscrupulous

people !

Personnal attacks should be blamed ; they should not appear in mailing

lists. They don't honour the author.

Concerning the scientific aspects, objective criteria are the number of

publications and their qualities attested by the journal in which they

have appeared, the number of invited conferences, of thesis supervised

(even if the students are at the origin of many publications, in France

as anywhere else). A recent report from the French Academy of Science on

the situation of Radiochemistry contains an interesting bibliometric

report on the publications in the field (one may always criticize this

Institution and the publication ...) ; it shows that the incriminated

persons, Institute, Institution and France, in general, occupy a very

honourable rank. It is true that Radiochemistry has suffered these last

20 years, as all over the world, of a lack of interest and that the

number of students has severely decreased. Whatsoever, this study, except

if one considers the referees and the conference organisers as idiots,

attests of the scientific merit of the persons and of the communities

under concern. Worth to mention are the fames of the CEA, Atomic Energy

Commission, and of the nuclear industries which have led France to a

leading position in the field of nuclear energy and all the associated

domains ; without any doubt, the French universities and academic

Institutions, among which the IPNO, have played a major role in the

education of most of the scientific leaders working there.

Slander is a technique as old as our world. One could expect that it

would stay out of the scientific community. By the way, besides his human

qualities clearly revealed by his message, who can attest of Marco's

scientific merit, if not ... himself !

I would expect that the list owners (others are welcome) blame the author

and scratch him from the lists. We have nothing to share with such guys

!

P.S. I don' t belong to the Orsay lab but I'm a radiochemist, member of

the CNRS and French, deeply shocked by this perfidious message.

I apologize for the english mistakes. .. These frenchies are so bad in

foreign languages !

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Jean-Charles ABBE

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