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[Gene Williams]

Sir, thank you for your suggestion. I will follow your instruction. However, I'd like to make a few points in my defense:
1) This specific board is for "General Discussions about other Fine Doubles." It is not about Parkers.
2) John published a widely disseminated article in the most prestigious journal of double guns in America. He did some pioneering research. However, he was wrong on many of his facts and his underlying premis is suspect..and if these are allowed to go unchallenged they will morph into reality.
3) His work is public. My problem is not personal. It is professional.

If you want to suppress the interchange of ideas and the validation of assertions - that is fine. But it does you no honor...neither intellectually nor ethically. John should be able to defend his article. I should be able to challenge that article and his defense. The scientific method demands this and nothing more.