By comparing the high level of contempt and insult in remarks by both Clifford Will and Lewis Epstein with the more civilized citations you print from John Chappell, one can sense not only that the former two speak from a sense of power more than from true expertise, but also that they must feel insecure in their beliefs, to seek to defend them by such rude attacks. Epstein compares our ideas to a many-headed dragon and says we change them every week as each one is refuted. On the contrary, it is those in power who are constantly displaying inconsistency, starting with Einstein himself, who had trouble staying in harmony with his own postulates; and they could not have refuted our ideas because, as Chappell says, they refuse even to listen to them.
Will's allegation that "it borders on crackpot" to question special relativity could much more appropriately be turned ...
