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John Denker vs. Anderson/Eberhardt

On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, John Denker wrote:

IMHO it is a disservice to refer unsuspecting readers to the Anderson &
Eberhardt paper. See
http://www.monmouth.com/~jsd/fly/lift.htm
for a discussion of the issues.

How Airplanes Fly: A Physical Description of Lift (c)
David Anderson, Dept. of Physics, Fermi Accelerator Nat. Lab.
Scott Eberhardt, Dept. of Aero/Astro, U. Washington
http://www.aa.washington.edu/faculty/eberhardt/lift.htm


It is also a "disservice" to contact the webmaster of an academic site and
suggest that their links to the Anderson/Eberhardt paper be removed, but
to not be up-front with Anderson or Eberhardt that you have done so, or
to give them a chance to respond to the owners of that academic site.

I was recently contacted by Dr. Cesar Levy, Director of the ALLSTAR
project at Florida International University.

Aeronautic Learning Lab. for Sci., Tech., and Research
http:www.allstar.fiu.edu

This was in regards to a continuing situation going on between Mr. Denker
and the authors of the paper above. He asked me for my viewpoint. I
recommended that the parties involved join PHYS-L and discuss both the
original paper and the issues raised by John's review. If a bright light
of public discussion is aimed at these issues, perhaps we can come to some
resolution.

It is my opinion that John Denker's critique of the Anderson/Eberhardt
paper contains some extreme violations of Newton's laws. It is seriously
flawed, and the Anderson/Eberhardt paper is not. Let's discuss this.


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