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Is anyone aware of a reliable source for the dates of the pamphlets leedskalnin wrote and sold? Just a microfilm of the miami newspaper advertisement (for the pamphlet) would be a step in the right direction, supposing it exists.
Specifically magnetic current is of the most interest, and it seems to have been published / created for the first time in 1988 (after billy idol's sweet sixteen, and "in search of" episode had made coral castle a relatively well known tourist attraction). I have never seen a copy or scan of any original pamplet (or even secondhand copy thereof), except possibly a book in every home which is not intersesting. Nor have i seen any references to the magnetic current pamphlet that could help verify the creation date... Does anyone have these details?
It would seem we have to conclude fraud by the modern owners of the attraction (at least for selling the pamphlets as authentic, if not manufacturing them to begin with) unless the source can be verified and reasonable chronology established. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.233.157.189 ( talk) 06:03, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
Is there any way to make it clear that this guy was a fringe theorist without us tripping over WP:NPOV etc? I came to this article following a conversation in a pub, where someone actually seemed to think his ideas were accepted and this belief was based entirely on our article. That is scary.
I've just done some GSearches and the only support for him seems to come from obvious nutters & small-time publishers/vanity publishers. There seems to be next to nothing in academic literature and I think that, somehow, we have to make this absolutely clear. I should have access to JSTOR in the next two or three weeks & can do a search there for any stuff that GBooks/GScholar etc may have missed but, honestly, it doesn't take a genius to work out that Leedskalnin was not entirely compos mentis when it comes to his theories. And, yes, I have read Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions and am well aware of the Gallileo effect. - Sitush ( talk) 01:35, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
The article designates 1988 as the publication date of his written works. This is grossly wrong. The books themselves have copyright dates of 1936, 1945, and 1946 chronologically, for ed's 5 pamphlets. Although they were self published and distributed exclusively at Coral Castle (then known as Rock Gate, the name Ed gave the park), they were still published long before 1988, and copies can still be found with visitors from that era. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Poughkeepsieblue ( talk • contribs) 22:06, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
Above, there is a request for verification of the date of ed's written works. I have a saved print of microfilm from ed's Miami article. It shows the article as it appeared in print. The date is with it. I also know of several sources that have copies and scans of ed's works from the 1950's. I also have a vast amount of vintage images of ed and Rock Gate. I also have photographs of all of ed's naturalization paperwork, from the national archives in Georgia. I have been collecting these documents for a few years now, which I believe will serve as fine sources to cite corrections to this article. If anyone is interested in having them for review, I can make them available. Otherwise, I consider myself an expert on actual facts about Ed, including the mythos, and would be happy to edit the entire article accordingly. I've never edited a wiki before, but being incredibly researched on the subject of Ed Leedskalnin, I consider it my pleasure and duty to correct the falsities, and address the fact. There are only a handful of researches on the planet who have delved as deep as I have into Ed's life and work. I'm not sure how I should proceed, but I know the publication date is wrong, and I have sources that can prove it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Poughkeepsieblue ( talk • contribs) 22:26, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
Is this still being monitored? I have newspaper clippings of original writings. Ed instructs how to send a dollar in order to receive Magnetic Current and additional work dated from 1946. I will wait for contact here, or will edit article three weeks from today. Dante137 ( talk) 00:00, 28 January 2019 (UTC)dante137
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Is anyone aware of a reliable source for the dates of the pamphlets leedskalnin wrote and sold? Just a microfilm of the miami newspaper advertisement (for the pamphlet) would be a step in the right direction, supposing it exists.
Specifically magnetic current is of the most interest, and it seems to have been published / created for the first time in 1988 (after billy idol's sweet sixteen, and "in search of" episode had made coral castle a relatively well known tourist attraction). I have never seen a copy or scan of any original pamplet (or even secondhand copy thereof), except possibly a book in every home which is not intersesting. Nor have i seen any references to the magnetic current pamphlet that could help verify the creation date... Does anyone have these details?
It would seem we have to conclude fraud by the modern owners of the attraction (at least for selling the pamphlets as authentic, if not manufacturing them to begin with) unless the source can be verified and reasonable chronology established. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.233.157.189 ( talk) 06:03, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
Is there any way to make it clear that this guy was a fringe theorist without us tripping over WP:NPOV etc? I came to this article following a conversation in a pub, where someone actually seemed to think his ideas were accepted and this belief was based entirely on our article. That is scary.
I've just done some GSearches and the only support for him seems to come from obvious nutters & small-time publishers/vanity publishers. There seems to be next to nothing in academic literature and I think that, somehow, we have to make this absolutely clear. I should have access to JSTOR in the next two or three weeks & can do a search there for any stuff that GBooks/GScholar etc may have missed but, honestly, it doesn't take a genius to work out that Leedskalnin was not entirely compos mentis when it comes to his theories. And, yes, I have read Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions and am well aware of the Gallileo effect. - Sitush ( talk) 01:35, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
The article designates 1988 as the publication date of his written works. This is grossly wrong. The books themselves have copyright dates of 1936, 1945, and 1946 chronologically, for ed's 5 pamphlets. Although they were self published and distributed exclusively at Coral Castle (then known as Rock Gate, the name Ed gave the park), they were still published long before 1988, and copies can still be found with visitors from that era. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Poughkeepsieblue ( talk • contribs) 22:06, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
Above, there is a request for verification of the date of ed's written works. I have a saved print of microfilm from ed's Miami article. It shows the article as it appeared in print. The date is with it. I also know of several sources that have copies and scans of ed's works from the 1950's. I also have a vast amount of vintage images of ed and Rock Gate. I also have photographs of all of ed's naturalization paperwork, from the national archives in Georgia. I have been collecting these documents for a few years now, which I believe will serve as fine sources to cite corrections to this article. If anyone is interested in having them for review, I can make them available. Otherwise, I consider myself an expert on actual facts about Ed, including the mythos, and would be happy to edit the entire article accordingly. I've never edited a wiki before, but being incredibly researched on the subject of Ed Leedskalnin, I consider it my pleasure and duty to correct the falsities, and address the fact. There are only a handful of researches on the planet who have delved as deep as I have into Ed's life and work. I'm not sure how I should proceed, but I know the publication date is wrong, and I have sources that can prove it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Poughkeepsieblue ( talk • contribs) 22:26, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
Is this still being monitored? I have newspaper clippings of original writings. Ed instructs how to send a dollar in order to receive Magnetic Current and additional work dated from 1946. I will wait for contact here, or will edit article three weeks from today. Dante137 ( talk) 00:00, 28 January 2019 (UTC)dante137