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Petition Against Censorship

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Abstract

Petition from two dozen astronomers and physicists protesting censorship in cosmology by the leadership of the pre-print website arXiv. This is part of a recent pattern of censorship against papers questioning the scientific validity of the Big Bang Hypothesis.
We’re soliciting additional signatures for the petition below, initially signed by two dozen
astronomers and physicists. For background on this subject, see press releases here and here, a
video for broad audiences here and the papers themselves here.
If you want to sign, reply directly to me at eric@lppfusion. Include your full name and
institutional affiliation, which will be published for identification only. If you wish, add your
field of study, although we will not publish this.
Also, we are actively seeking media coverage, so please share this petition with any science
journalist you know who might be interested.
Eric J. Lerner, LPPFusion, Inc,.
A Petition Against Censorship
Petition to arXiv Scientific Director Steinn Sigurdsson and Head of Content Jim Entwood
from Astronomers, Astrophysicists, Cosmologists, Space Scientists, High Energy Physicists and
Plasma Physicists
As scientists engaged in the study of the cosmos and the relation of phenomena in space to those
here on Earth, we strongly protest arXiv’s censorship of controversial papers on cosmology and
specifically on the Big Bang hypothesis. Run by Cornell University, arXiv is supposed to
provide an open public forum for researchers to exchange pre-publication papers, without
undertaking to peer-review them. But during June, 2022, arXiv rejected for publication three
papers by Dr. Riccardo Scarpa, Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, and Eric J. Lerner,
LPPFusion, Inc. which are critical of the validity of the Big Bang hypothesis: “Will LCDM
cosmology survive the James Webb Space Telescope?” , “Observations of Large-Scale
Structures Contradict the Predictions of the Big Bang Hypothesis But Confirm Plasma Theory”,
and “The Big Bang Never Happened—A Reassessment of the Galactic Origin of Light Elements
(GOLE) Hypothesis and its Implications”. No specific reason was given for these rejections,
which was done by form letters stating that the papers lacked “sufficient original or substantive
scholarly research”, needed “revision”, and were “not of interest to arXiv.”
Without judging the scientific validity of the papers, it is clear to us that these papers are both
original and substantive and are of interest to all those concerned with the current crisis in
cosmology. It plainly appears that arXiv has refused publication to these papers only because of
their conclusions, which both provide specific predictions relevant to forthcoming observations
and challenge LCDM cosmology. Such censorship is anathema to scientific discourse and to the
possibility of scientific advance. We strongly urge that arXiv maintain its long-standing
practice of being an "open-access archive" of non-peer reviewed "scholarly articles"
and not violate that worthy practice by imposing any censorship. Instead, we encourage
arXiv to abide by its own principles, and publish these three papers and others like them that
clearly provide "sufficient original or substantive scholarly research" results and are of obvious
great interest to the arXiv audience.
Initial signers (institutions for identification only):
Jean-Marc Bonnet-Bidaud, Astrophysical Department, CEA Saclay (France)
David F. Crawford, School of Physics, University of Sydney (ret.) (Australia)
Timothy E. Eastman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (ret.) (USA)
Carlos Miguel Figueroa, Instituto de Física del Noroeste Argentino (Argentina)
Christopher C. Fulton, Protostar, Inc. (USA)
Amitabha Ghosh, Indian National Science Academy (ret.) (India)
Christian Jooss, Institute of Materials Physics, University of Goettingen (Germany)
Grit Kalies, HTW University of Applied Sciences Dresden (Germany)
John Kierein, Ball Space Systems, (ret.) (USA)
Michal Křížek, Czech Academy of Sciences (Czechia)
Eric J. Lerner, LPPFusion, Inc. (USA)
Martín López-Corredoira, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (Spain)
Josef Lutz, Chemnitz University of Technology (Germany)
Louis Marmet, York University (Canada)
Laszlo A. Marosi, Universidad de las Islas Baleares(ret.) (Spain)
Jayant Narlikar, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (ret.)(India)
Marcos Cesar Danhoni Neves, State University of Maringá (Brazil)
Wolfgang Oehm, SPODYR Group, Universität Bonn
Sisir Roy, National Institute of Advanced Studies (India)
Yves-henri Sanejouand, University of Nantes (France)
Riccardo Scarpa, Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (Spain)
Domingos Soares, Federal University of Minas Gerais (ret.) (Brazil)
Alessandro Trinchera, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (Germany)
Vaclav Vavrycuk, Institute of Geophysics, Czech Academy of Sciences (Czechia)
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