A New Kind of Science
by Stephen Wolfram
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Author: Stephen WolframEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-05
ISBN: 1579550088
Number of pages: 1192
Publisher: Wolfram Media
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Book Review: "A New Kind of Revisionism"
Summary: 1 Stars
Hi, my last review of this book had the title "A New Kind of Plagiarism", since then, very knowledgeable people have pinpointed with exactitude were the plagiarism was (almost the whole book!). A few others still claim that the book is good (how many of them are people who work for Wolfram?), to these people I ask the following question: can you point to a single original idea in the book? (Something that Wolfram actually discovered -because an astounding amount of things he claims are his are in reality other peoples inventions-- and that he did not discover a long time ago and already published). I wonder how many of the positive reviews were written by people who actually went to a University, I ask not as an insult but because If you commit plagiarism when studying in a University you can even get expelled (and they hammer this non-stop when you are in there), why isn't Wolfram "expelled" from the scientific community: simply because he is not in it!. Moreover, this is why he did not make this a scientific article but a book for the public at large; otherwise, the risk of being discovered (as a plagiarist) would have been too great. Guess what? You were discovered! It is amazing how short the memory of the public is. Most people cannot even remember all the fuzz that was made over fractals a while ago, no wonder some of them actually believe Wolfram did something original. These short attention span reviewers do not seem to grasp just how serious scientific fraud is!. Wolfram's book (sorry, I meant to say his copy pasting of other peoples work) should be condemned, no mater how entertaining it might be (or how good it might be as a general introduction to the discipline). Some reviewers think that the notes in the book contain the necessary references: THEY DO NOT. Wolfram is claiming long published (and much commented in popular Science Divulgation books) discoveries by others as his own. As if the plagiarism was not bad enough, the revisionist nature of his "history" of the discipline is unforgivable in itself (trying to erase the actual discoverers of the things he is claiming for himself). This kind of thing might have been permitted in 1950 Russia but in the XXI century in our country it is unbelievable that is being so. As another reviewer pointed out, "In his interview with "The Daily Telegraph" [May 15 2002] titled as "Is this man bigger than Newton and Darwin?" Wolfram remarks on his book as follows: "If other people don't get it, it's their problem, not mine." This is the most horrible attitude toward science I have ever encountered. He makes very little effort to present his what-so-called "New Science" to his peers. " Another reviewer writes:"If one browses through all the reviews written here, one realizes that those who praise Wolfram are NOT SPECIFIC at all about why he is so great except that he has in general touched almost every aspect of modern science, a non-sense view. On the other hand, readers who have negative viewpoints of the book are very SPECIFIC about their opinion and they express why Wolfram's book is neither revolutionary nor new. "
"Like most people out there I believe that Wolfram owes a big apology to the scientific community and those non-expert enthusiasts who have a huge thirst for science but misled by non-scientists like Wolfram. "
"Mr. Wolfram is the author of Mathematica. Again, he takes the work of hundreds of people without giving them any credit. Disgusting."
"Why Mr. Wolfram can get away with all this. Read the first chapter of Philip Greenspun. If you have money you can invent truth. "
I quote these to wet your appetite for some excellent reviews so please read them all, believe me, they are worth your time, Wolfram's book is not!.
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