Some time ago looking for a reference for a paper I suddenly became aware about retraction of Joy Christian paper (arXiv version) from Annals of Physics (related posts of Peter Woit and Luboš Motl).
Finally, some explanation appears instead of the paper
He wrote on his web page
Earlier, Florin Moldoveanu in a comment to the retraction mentioned that J. O. Weatherall "found a mathematically valid example very similar with Joy's proposal but one which does not use quaternions/Clifford algebras" (arXiv, journal).
But even without the explicit use of Clifford algebras or quaternions (I even afraid to use them now) … if a paper suspected in local realism should be also retracted due to a recent experiment?
Finally, some explanation appears instead of the paper
"[…] After extensive review, the Editors unanimously concluded that the results are in obvious conflict with a proven scientific fact, i.e., violation of local realism that has been demonstrated not only theoretically but experimentally in recent experiments. On this basis, the Editors decided to withdraw the paper. […]"Why such unanimous solution was delayed so much, the e-print arXiv version appears more than two years ago? Yet another interesting fact, recent criticism of the Joy Christian ideas by Richard Gill has been rejected from arXiv and so had to appear on viXra instead
He wrote on his web page
"[…] I wrote a tutorial paper intended to clarify the situation around the Joy Christian model. To my surprise it was *rejected* by arXiv.org on the grounds (a) that it was tutorial in nature, not scientific and (b) that it was personal, not scientific. I therefore joined the crackpots by posting it on viXra.org where it drew (of course) fierce (but IMHO completely unscientific) criticism. […]"
Earlier, Florin Moldoveanu in a comment to the retraction mentioned that J. O. Weatherall "found a mathematically valid example very similar with Joy's proposal but one which does not use quaternions/Clifford algebras" (arXiv, journal).
But even without the explicit use of Clifford algebras or quaternions (I even afraid to use them now) … if a paper suspected in local realism should be also retracted due to a recent experiment?
