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From: Archimedes.Plutonium@dartmouth.edu (Archimedes Plutonium)
Newsgroups: sci.chem,alt.sci.physics.plutonium,sci.physics
Subject: Re: UIUC Tim Skirvin's new book ELEMENT SEABORTIONIUM
Date: 30 Apr 1997 02:08:56 GMT
Organization: UIUC, pass the champagne Dr. Pangloss
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>Professor Skirvin of the University of Illinois 
>
>>reviewing selected passages 
>>from his son's new textbook on chemistry, personally 
>>autographed at the UIUC
>>bookstore, tearoom this coming saturday.
>
>
>                Element  Seabortionium 
>
>
>  Glenn does not violate any physics. His accomplishments and work was
>good work. Glenn is included here because of what he did after his good
>work. After his good work, there is a huge gap of nothing to show for
>out there at Berkeley. 
>  I just want to comment that I think he should not have sent or made
>the departure of the  best nucleosynthesis scientists to Darmstadt
>Germany.
>Berkeley is in the "weeds" because Glenn's failure at leadership at
>Berkeley. Glenn's rule at nucleosynthesis is a tyrannical rule.
>Glenn along with his friend Mr. Ghiorso should have gotten out of the
>nucleosynthesis field a long time ago, decades and decades ago, and
>passed the baton to new, young, go-ahead charging-physicists. 
>   Hero worship has no place in science. For the last 20 years, Mr.
>Seaborg has concerned himself chiefly with the selfish act of attacking
>Soviet scientists over priority of discovery. Instead of Berkeley going
>on with the work they, under Glenn have nothing to show.
>Berkeley nucleosynthesis has suffered enormously until finally
>Darmstadt Germany is now the worlds site for this science. The
>upshot, element nucleosynthesis moved out of the USA and is now
>dominated by German scientists and the expatriate USA physicists who
>saw the arteriosclerosis of Mr. Seaborg and Mr. Ghiorso.
>
>  Hero worship, and selfishness in science has gone to the extreme 
>in Mr. Seaborg. He is a modern day Narcissus. Recently he was seen
>storming across continents and ocean depths on bare claws for the
>naming of an element after himself -- seabortionium. It is not good 
>enough for Glenn that elements naming is done posthumously. And why
>oh why could not the elements be named only after gods or places, not
>people?

  Hear , hear, don't they have a mandatory course at UIUC on Manners
instead of assuming that students know manners? Instead of a foreign
language or gym mandatory requirement, our Colleges should make a
course on "manners" the only college mandatory requirement. Teach
students that it is impolite to hum in public, to pop bubble gum in
public, to jingle coins in your pocket and netiquette and politeness on
the net and web etc etc