Comments on On the career of Dr. Serkan ANILIR: Dr. Anilir's books in Japanese

I am sure University Of Tokyo is ashamed big time ...

2010-05-04T05:53:11.320+09:00

I am sure University Of Tokyo is ashamed big time because of their failure for screening a PhD candidate and his dissertation. They should not award this fellow with the degree at the first place. The guy might claimed bunch of bull (such as he was involved with NASA, etc) none of which changes the fact that the UOT dissertation committee was fu... up big time. This should be a good lesson learned to all universities around the world. There may be lots of "pretender"s among us (any body remember the Pretender episodes on TV - here in US ? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pretender) - it is the duty of the people who serves on those dissertation committees and/or thesis advisor's, second readers, etc to screen these kind of stuff. The Pretender was a good tv show. Maybe this fellow watched it before he moved to Japan ;)

Thanks for your comments. As Mert mentioned, it i...

2009-10-11T00:30:23.061+09:00

Thanks for your comments.

As Mert mentioned, it is true that his book succeeded in getting many
children and adults interested in science and giving them positive
motivation. This is so even though his writings occasionally show his
lack of understanding of physics, as Armagan suggests.

I think most people are looking for fantasy in science, and he is good
in filling the desire (including himself being a "superhero").

I feel very sad when I think of reaction of those people. But the
truth will eventually prevail; then better sooner than later.

i have been thinking to give up poring with serkan...

2009-10-10T20:40:57.226+09:00

i have been thinking to give up poring with serkan because he is opening minds of children and gain them new perspectives, but he is playing with fire and I wish to come to light his real character.

MErt

Thank you, Narkes, for your kindness to answer my ...

2009-10-10T02:26:26.856+09:00

Thank you, Narkes, for your kindness to answer my question about Dr. Anilir's corpus published in Japan more than satisfactorily.

This seems congruent with my very distant (a little short of 9,000 km) observation that, apart from an single article in a collaborative book, which is sort of obligatory to save face (and to maintain a title) as an academician, his sole focus is on kids, in addition to rehashing of his youthful adventures in each book.

Does this tell the blog audience something about his core competencies perhaps?