A recent internet search has revealed a new site, called http://keplersdiscovery.com, that purports to take the reader through the successive breakthroughs of Johannes Kepler on, first, Universal Gravitation, and second, World Harmonics, and then on to Gauss's later discovery of the orbit of the asteroid Ceres. We in the LaRouche Youth Movement are overjoyed when our work on science inspires others to recreate the discoveries of real scientists such as Cusa, Kepler, Gauss and Riemann. However, upon viewing the referenced website, we recognized a blatant attempt to plagiarize the recent original research work of the LYM, as seen on their websites http://www.wlym.com/~animations. The work of the LYM, which is the basis for their entire site, is nowhere referenced or cited.
We present here a bill of indictment to a candid public on what will henceforth be named the “Bizarro Kepler” page. Let the evidence speak for itself.
Evidence
1) The "Bizarro Kepler" page presents absolutely no material that goes beyond the contents of the cited "LYM Kepler" pages. In fact, the "Bizarro Kepler" section on Harmony stops exactly where the LYM Harmony page stops - with the forecasting of an exploded planet between Mars and Jupiter. http://www.wlym.com/~animations/harmonies/site.php?goto=asteroidbelt.html It is relevant to note, that the plagiarism of the LYM Harmony page is nowhere near as complete as the plagiarism of the LYM New Astronomy page. But, they claim that more is "coming soon."
2) The coverage of Gauss's discovery of the orbit of Ceres on the "Bizarro Kepler" page is incomplete. Why? The current "LYM Gauss" group has not yet released their final project to be plagiarized! Thus, in the "Bizarro Kepler" group's attempt to mimic the work of the LYM, they were forced to rely on outdated hypotheses published in the Summer 1998 issue of "Fidelio." http://www.schillerinstitute.org/fid_97-01/982_Gauss_Ceres.html
3) The "Bizarro Kepler" website quoted, without citation, an article on Nicholas of Cusa, published both on the Orbit of Ceres website and in the only journal of the LaRouche-Riemann method, "Dynamis." They claim to quote Abraham Kaestner, though they actually quote an exact paraphrase by Michael Kirsch. Compare:
http://www.wlym.com/~animations/ceres/Interim/interim_michael.html
http://keplersdiscovery.com/Cusanus
4) We will append here a few more comparative links between the “LYM Kepler” pages, and the “Bizarro Kepler” pages. As the reader will note, the "Bizarro Kepler" authors didn't even bother to change the colors.
On referring Mars to the ecliptic:
LYM Kepler - http://wlym.com/~animations/part2/9/chapter9.gif
Bizarro Kepler - http://keplersdiscovery.com/Inclination.correction.swf
Analysis
On first viewing the "Bizarro Kepler" page, Lyndon LaRouche remarked that the site "is obviously well financed," since it appeared only months after the LYM teams put up their sites. If the authors of the "Bizarro Kepler" hoax had a sincere concern for the advancement of scientific knowledge, they would have, instead, promoted the already completed work on the LYM websites, as opposed to creating a pseudo-website peddling "Kepler for Dummies."
Finally, of note, we are currently investigating connections between this "bizarro Kepler" site, and other various anti-LaRouche, slander websites, some of which are connected to John Train and Richard Mellon Scaife.
