Thomas J. Nagy, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Expert Systems

George Washington University

Washington, D.C.

26 June 2000

Marc Brodsky, Executive Director

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse

College Park, Maryland 20740

Dear Dr. Brodsky:

I strongly endorse the position of my colleague, Dr. Denis Cioffi, that Dr. Schmidt's job should be returned to him.

With the resurrection of Star(t) Wars, American science's own Lysenko affair, it becomes imperative that principled dissent to official folly be cherished rather than liquidated.

Sincerely,

Thomas J. Nagy