 DM: I have to say for someone variously described on the internet as a "charlatan", "crackpot", "fraud", "cretin" and "knob", you have an extremely polite manner.
Well thank you - I suppose that's a complement of sorts. It is mildly amusing to note that you are not the first children's television character to attempt to defame my character through selective trawling of past internet posts. A similar attempt was made on the sci.physics newsgroup by a certain "Big Bird" way back in 2001, who stated: "...You may want to check up on the identity of the person who posts
under the name "Sabbir Rahman". You might find the result interesting
and quite hilarious in the context of a person who accuses others of
academic dishonesty..." (see http://groups.google.com/group/sci.physics/msg/27c96704a09f12bf) This was the response from Martin Gradwell: "So, Mr. Bird (or should I call you "Big"?), you imply that the person who
posts as Sabbir Rahman is not named Sabbir Rahman; but you don't make any
explicit claims. You know that as long as you stick to vague insinuations
and innuendo nobody can catch you in a lie, even though everything about you
is a lie. You aren't a bird, and you are very, very small."
(http://groups.google.com/group/sci.physics/msg/e655ae476e495277) To this "Big Bird" replied, "It is not my job to rub anybody's nose in anything. I give you a hint
that there's something interesting to look at -- it is up to you to
look at it or ignore it. This is the age of the internet, it is not
particularly difficult to figure out someone's identity. You're free
to do your homework or not to do it. And the word "you" in the
previous is a collective "you": everybody here is free to check things
out for themselves and to come to their own conclusions.
When was the last time you saw a post of mr. "Rahman"?"
(http://groups.google.com/group/sci.physics/msg/5d1b099decb4b21b) Martin Gradwell responded to "Big Bird" thus: "...It's not my habit to check up on people - what they have to say is more
important than what their background is - but, just to humour you, here goes... The most recent post appears to be that posted by Sabbir A. Rahman,
sarah...@alum.mit.edu
which appeared in the thread "New article questioning existence of black
holes", in sci.physics.research on the 9th of October.
He has also posted using the account intuitioni...@yahoo.com. and he is
possibly also the same person as the Sabbir A. Rahman who used the account
sarah...@bol-online.com to seek out cancer patients who were willing to
travel to Bangladesh for treatment Note that if Sabbir A. Rahman isn't his real name then he has apparently
managed to fool the MIT Alumni Association. Between 1995 and 1997 there was a Sabbir Rahman who posted as
sarah...@athena.mit.edu or sarah...@mit.edu, and he made various postings
about computer problems, or offering music cassettes for sale. Furthermore,
there is no shortage of information to be had about Sabbir Rahman(s): Both
Sabbir and Rahman seem to be popular names, especially in Bangladesh.
There's a Dr. Sabbir Rahman who is listed as a visiting professor at the
Theoretical Physics Research Group at the Queen Mary college at the
University of London, where they specialise in string theory, particles and
fields, condensed matter physics, and quantum and statistical mechanics.
There's a Sabbir Rahman who had a "string theory home page". There's a Dr.
Sabbir Rahman who is or was the chief technology officer of HTTP technology,
inc, and who is a founding member of the Zayed institute, and who has
developed software to examine CAT scans and detect the early stages of
cancer. Any or all of these could be "our" Sabbir Rahman - I don't know. Is
any of this supposed to be hilarious, or indicative of academic dishonesty? By contrast, I find that your career has gone rapidly downhill ever since
you left Sesame Street."
(http://groups.google.com/group/sci.physics/msg/e6acf4473a8c686a) Ulrich Bruchholz also replied: "...May I quote from the HTTP site ?
| Dr. Sabbir Rahman BA, PhD is the Companys Chief Scientific Officer.
| Dr. Rahman studied Physics at Brasenose College, Oxford, between 1989
| and 1992. During this time, he also worked as a sponsored research
| student at the General Electric Company, participating in a range of
| research and development projects for the United States Department of
| Defense, the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence and the European Space
| Agency. In 1992, he won the Karl Taylor Compton Fellowship for Physics
| at MIT where he conducted research in theoretical particle physics,
| specializing in string theory and gaining his PhD in September 1997.
| Dr. Rahman then worked as a senior systems engineer at Raytheon
| Optical Systems, Inc., where he worked extensively on projects in
| hyperspectral remote sensing, image analysis and cancer detection. He
| is a founder of technology company Nightingale Technologies Limited
| (now HTTP Insights), where he served as Chief Scientific Officer. Dr.
| Rahman has written numerous papers on string theory, medical imaging,
| remote sensing and cluster analysis. Thus, the most of your hits might be real. Merely the first sentence
of the quotation could be obsolete due to the foundation of the Zayed
institute. -
An extremely remarkable human ! Who, if not he, should have the law
to demand scientific honesty?"
(http://groups.google.com/group/sci.physics/msg/1efc31ebff7e69cc)
So, what conclusions might be reached from all this? Firstly, perhaps, that words taken intentionally out of context should not be taken at face value. And secondly, that neither ought to be trusted feeble-minded individuals who attempt to defame others on internet fora while hiding behind false aliases (be they children's cartoon characters or otherwise).
If, as you claim, you have time to do so, I would recommend that you invest the time to read through the entire thread entitled "Academic censorship on sci.physics.research?" from which the above extracts were taken, and which I initiated in defence of Abhas Mitra who had been unjustifiably attacked without his knowledge on the moderated sci.physics.research newsgroup for his peer-reviewed article claiming that (macroscopic) black holes could not be formed. I am pleased to note that Dr Mitra's subsequent work on black holes (or the lack thereof) has since appeared in numerous peer reviewed journals: http://arxiv.org/find/all/1/all:+AND+abhas+mitra/0/1/0/all/0/1 BTW, it is not the case that the moderators of sci.physics.research called me a "f**king deceptive piece of ****". Even they would not stoop so low as this. Rather, this dubious honour goes to a tremendously brave individual who posted anonymously under the pseudonym "dda1", and who was apparently upset about a discussion thread I had initiated entitled "Misinterpretation of the radial parameter in the Schwarschild solution?", and may also have been upset about a couple of papers I wrote at around that time regarding the luminiferous aether, the first of which had been presented at the Albert Einstein Century International Conference in Paris in July2005:
http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0408139
http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0607102 By the way, I could not help but smile when Karvol accused me of "espousing theories plucked from the proverbial ether" - absolutely brilliant!! DM: I'm glad to see your financial situation has improved.
Yes, life does have its little ups and downs and we have to learn to bear them with patience. Although we are doing fine financially at the moment, I would have expected you to have discovered, had you been a little more thorough in your research, that I was actually worth significantly more in the past - indeed around $30million back in 2001, after my company Nightingale Technologies was bought by publicly listed HTTP Technology Inc after DERA had declared my classification algorithms "world class":
http://google.brand.edgar-online.com/EFX_dll/EDGARpro.dll?FetchFilingHTML1?ID=1401438&SessionID=Vn6MH6EB3bgL-R7 It was during that time that Francesca von Hapsburg, who was perhaps looking to become the new "Lady Diana" following the latter's untimely death (or was it an assassination? :), came to visit me accompanied by her husband Archduke Karl von Hapsburg, Prince Imperial of Austria, in search of novel landmine detection technologies,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesca_von_Habsburg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Habsburg-Lothringen I have quite fond memories of this encounter, as Ms von Hapsburg, who was sitting on my left, was positively brimming with excitement as I made my presentation (which I had had to put together at extremely short notice on their behalf), while her husband, sitting on my right, actually seemed a little bored, as if he had been dragged along against his will. As I explained, the technology required would be similar to that used in the cancer detection system we had just developed. This work had been carried out on behalf of the Zayed Institute for Research and Technology, of which I had been invited to become a founding member by HH Dr Sheikh Sultan bin Khalifa Al Nahyan, then son of the crown prince (now emir) of the UAE, Sheikh Khalifa:
http://www1.albawaba.com/news/uae-institute-launch-%E2%80%98revolutionary%E2%80%99-cancer-detection-system DM: It is extraordinary how few people know that there were actually three buildings (not two) that collapsed on the world trade center site on 9/11. No, we all knew about that.
Are you sure, or did you have to look that one up on the internet first? I ask, because I have worked with a lot of smart and knowledgeable people both here and at my previous workplaces, and not one of them was aware of the collapse of WTC 7. Given that you are such an expert on the matter, would you care to share with us your own personal thoughts regarding the cause of its collapse and the controversial issues surrounding it? DM: Internet conspiracy theorists are ten-a-penny.
Are you a man or a sheep? Oh, sorry, I forgot - you are a mouse! Surely even mice can think for themselves? DM: The same cannot be said for magical green liquids. Do you really think it is wise to "ask (type 2) patients to avoid their usual medication for a short period" before taking your potion? I think you might need to drop this policy in order to get the medical profession onboard ("they have not been very willing to help us to date for whatever reason").
Let me clear up a few apparent misconceptions regarding this lest your erroneous internet-based investigations lead others astray. First of all, I am not the inventor of the "special herbal extract" and I do not know how it is made. Secondly, it did not completely cure diabetes in "one to five days". This whole affair was many years ago now, but in the cases that I remember where blood sugar levels returned to normal, the treatment had taken place over a number of weeks. Contrary to your supposition, the medicine used to treat the tongue cancer was of course different from the diabetes medicine. The inventor had also developed a herbal extract which could remove/absorb the arsenic from contaminated water. We had this verified by researchers at the Bangladesh Arsenic Mitigation Water Supply Project (BAMWSP) who were astonished by the results. He had also produced a cream which could be used to treat arsenic-induced skin poisoning successfully. I actually pointed out the ethical issues associated with treating human beings before animals to the inventor. As perhaps you can imagine, it is a little awkward making this point to a (particularly stuibborn) visionary mystic who had already successfully cured himself and several of his own family members, but I eventually did manage to convince him to have it tested on alloxan-diabetic laboratory mice at the Department of Ethnopharmacology at Dhaka University. These tests were successful, and the head of department presented us with a signed statement verifying such. With hindsight I would probably have done some things quite differently (or perhaps even not at all), but this was all rather new to me at the time, and the circumstances were very unusual, to say the least. I have not been in contact with the inventor for over six years now, but if you are genuinely interested I can try to dig out his details for you, assuming that he is still alive and well, and you are welcome to contact him. Perhaps later I will entertain you with the (true) tale of the two Russian physicists who found a cure for Aids, and came to us for investment into their remarkable supertoroidal coil technology. DM: Don't worry, I'll always have time for you big boy.
Oo-er. Well, enjoy, and have a nice day. - Sabbir.
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