[Bmi] I was banned from connectionist mailing list?

[Juyang Weng]

> On 3/30/15 2:55 PM, Yoonsuck Choe wrote:
>>
>> Hi John,
>>
>> As a first step you might want to drop the alias-based authorship of 
>> the Brain Mind Magazine and drop the political content. It is not 
>> difficult to infer who wrote many of those alias-based articles. Why 
>> hide behind the alias? Also, scientists don't come to the 
>> connectionists mailing list to get political content.
>>
>> I think it was not just the announcement of the BMM table of 
>> contents, but what was in the table of contents that led to the 
>> unsubscription decision by the connectionists list. Articles written 
>> by anonymous people, and political articles that have nothing much to 
>> do with science (to be fair, some were about science policy) may have 
>> been a deciding factor.
>>
>> Please feel free to share this if you want, but please cite the whole 
>> email if you decide to share, not just parts.
>>
>> Yoonsuck
>> choe at tamu.edu
>>
>> Yoonsuck Choe, Ph.D.              Dept. of Comp. Sci. & Engineering
>> Professor                       Texas A&M University
>> Director, Brain Networks Laboratory       3112 TAMU
>> Email: choe at tamu.edu, choe at cs.tamu.edu    College Station, TX 77843-3112
>> WWW:   http://faculty.cse.tamu.edu/choe   Phone: +1-979-845-5466
>> Lab:   http://research.cse.tamu.edu/bnl   Fax:   +1-979-847-8578
>>

On 3/30/15 5:12 PM, Juyang Weng wrote:
> Dear Yoonsuck,
>
> Thanks for the comments.
>
>  Juan is a real person, not alias.  He has his picture in the article.
>
> For politics related contents, it is often to use alias (pen names), 
> as otherwise some authors may face retaliations or nobody dares to 
> speak out.
>
> The U.S. legal system protects witnesses/writers (by hiding their ID) 
> and it also protects freedom of press.
>
> What do you think?
>
> -John 

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