I agree with Alejandro because it seems highly likely to me that the ban on Kliman was not in fact imposed because he may have been circulating a mss elsewhere even if this is how RRPE editors justified the ban at that time to themselves. It would seem to me that the ban was in fact imposed on Kliman because he is unlikeable and/or politically deviant. And both reasons do not justify a ban, so yes RRPE now has had to retract the ban even if wants to continue to believe that it imposed it solely due the misunderstanding that Kliman had been circulating a mss to two or more journals at the same time. And it does seem to me that now that Kliman has had the ban lifted, he should stop having his lawyers make calls--if this is in fact what he had done-- simply because one of the editors refuses to recognize that the ban was not in fact imposed due to the putative misunderstanding alone. The objective harm--the ban--has been undone. So if in fact Kliman had his lawyer contact Skillman because Skillman still believes that the ban was imposed due to a misunderstanding alone, I think this can be seen as a petty act since Skillman clearly did nothing illegal in telling us that he refuses to interpret the RRPE retraction as a confession to previous censorship on political and/or personal grounds. Skillman refuses to believe a lot of things--is he to be threatened, however obliquely, with a lawsuit every time he refuses to submit to the obvious or continues to hold on to his own personal and idiosyncratic criticism out of what seems to me at this point obviously bad faith? Rakesh
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