Friday, June 24, 2005
My Case
The enclosed documents summarize the evidence in support of my claim that I was persecuted for 15 years by certain members of the liberal scientific establishment and various officials at two institutions: SUNY at Stony Brook and the National Science Foundation of the U.S. Government (NSF). I worked between 1985 and 2002 as Lab Manager and Research Associate Professor at the Department of Geosciences, SUNY at Stony Brook; the last 11 years as a member of a NSF Science and Technology Center, the Center for High Pressure Research (CHiPR). The CHiPR ended its planned 11-year life span on January 31, 2002, when I was dismissed, despite being its most valuable scientist, under the excuse that the project had ended. Yet, despite a large number of scientists employed by the CHiPR, I was the only one dismissed under this excuse. The CHiPR was “resurrected” after a few months as COMPRES (Consortium for Materials Properties Research in Earth Sciences), funded by the same NSF resources that were used previously to fund CHiPR, where all other scientists from CHiPR have continued their employment without any interruption. This reorganization, which resulted in the loss of my employment and ended my scientific career, occurred through negotiations between the executive staff of CHiPR and the officials in the EAR division of the NSF. Although I retained my position as Research Associate Professor at the Department of Geosciences, I am no longer able to obtain research funding from the NSF, find a comparable university position elsewhere, nor generate any income at the Department or the University. It is also clear now that the Program Directors in the EAR division of the NSF knew at the time of my dismissal that my scientific career was over, because they stopped sending me research proposals for review. This was not obvious to me at that time, otherwise I would not be wasting two years trying to find an academic position elsewhere. Prior to my dismissal, as an employee of the Research Foundation, I was persecuted for 15 years in a systematic pattern of abuse, harassment and bullying by some of my colleagues at the Department, with the intention to make my life miserable and thus induce me to quit on my own. The NSF officials “joined” in this campaign during the tenure of the former Director Dr. Rita R. Colwell, who introduced the extreme liberal policies that make it almost impossible for scientists who are not liberals to receive research funding. Since I am a refugee from communism, which is widely known, I cannot even pretend that I am a liberal; in fact I am a registered Republican. I believe this to be the main reason why I was blacklisted. My colleagues at the Department of Geosciences, all liberals, have refused to consider me for a permanent faculty position. The University also denied my request for promotion to full Research Professor based on the publication of my book summarizing my research, although it would not cost the University a penny, since they have not been paying me anything since January 31, 2002. The University also rejected my request for hearings to address my grievances. My case was presented to various officials at the NSF and the SUNY at Stony Brook, and my colleagues at the Department of Geosciences, in a series of letters sent between April 2003 and July 2004. The letters and the responses to them follow, approximately, in the chronological order.
Correspondence with the National Science Foundation
My letters to the NSF officials were formulated, to assure responses, as appeals of the denials of funding for my research proposals submitted in 2003 and 2004. While the required responses to these appeal letters did nominally address the appeals, everything else was ignored, including what I would consider as serious charges of corruption.
Letter to Dr. Herman B. Zimmerman (April 10, 2003)
Reply (April 14, 2003)
Letter to Dr. Margaret S. Leinen (April 21, 2003)
Reply (May 15, 2003)
Letter to Dr. Joseph Bordogna, NSF Deputy Director (May 21, 2003)
Reply (July 3, 2003)
Letter to Dr. Rita R. Colwell, NSF Director (June 26, 2003)
Reply by Margaret A. Cavanaugh (July 28, 2003)
Application for the position of Deputy Assistant Director for Geosciences (August 10, 2003)
Reply (March 8, 2004)
Letter to Dr. Arden L. Bement, Jr., NSF Director (May 5, 2004)
Reply by Dr. John B. Hunt (May 18, 2004)
Letter to Dr. Margaret S. Leinen (May 27, 2004)
Reply, page 1, page 2 (June 25, 2004)
Letter to Dr. Arden L. Bement, Jr., NSF Director (December 27, 2004)
No reply
Application for the positions of 2 NSF Program Directors (July 30, 2004)
Follow-up-1 communication (August 20, 2004)
Follow-up-2 communication (August 20, 2004)
Confirmation-1 (September 10, 2004)
Confirmation-2 (September 13, 2004)
Reply-1 (November 5, 2004)
Reply-2 (May 5, 2005)
Correspondence with the Office of Science and Technology Policy
Letter to Dr. John H. Marburger, III, Science Adviser to the President (July 9, 2004)
No reply, but Dr. Bement was appointed by the President (September 15, 2004)
Correspondence with the SUNY at Stony Brook
My letters to the officials at SUNY Stony Brook and my colleagues at the Department of Geosciences were stonewalled. The university president, Dr. Shirley Strum Kenny, denied my request for hearings to address the 15 years of persecution and abuse by my colleagues at the Department of Geosciences.
Letter to Dr. Robert McGrath, Provost (September 8, 2003)
Reply (September 16, 2003)
Letter to Dr. Shirley Strum Kenny, President (September 22, 2003)
Reply (October 2, 2003)
Reply by Lynn Johnson (October 22, 2003)
Letter to Prof. Donald H. Lindsley (October 6, 2003)
Reply, page 1, page 2 (October 27, 2003)
Letter to Prof. Robert C. Liebermann (November 10, 2003)
Reply (November 14, 2003)
Letter to Prof. Donald J. Weidner (November 28, 2003)
Reply (January 2, 2004)
Letter to Prof. Scott M. McLennan (January 8, 2004)
Forwarded to the new Chair, Prof. Teng-fong Wong
Letter to Prof. Teng-fong Wong (April 13, 2004)
No reply
Letter to Dr. Shirley Strum Kenny, President (April 20, 2004)
Letter to Dr. Shirley Strum Kenny, President (May 21, 2004)
Reply (May 19, 2004, post marked May 22, 2004)
Letter to Prof. Teng-fong Wong (July 22, 2004)
Reply (August 27, 2004)
Other Correspondence
Letter to Prof. Charles T. Prewitt (October 11, 2004)
Reply (November 18, 2004)
Letter to Dr. Terence J. Pell (November 30, 2004)
No reply
Letter to Mr. David Horowitz (December 20, 2004)
No reply
