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Sterling
----- Original Message -----
From: Bo Linton
Cc: ***
Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2007 2:35 AM
Subject: St Petersburg Times outrageous ethical standards
Dear Sterling Allan,
I am writing this letter on a business trip in Kuwait after just completing a wonderful presentation at the United Nations where I was invited to speak about the MagneGas technology and its benefits to the planet. It is a shame and quite disgusting that I even have to write this letter about the horrendous ethical standard at the St Petersburg Times. I have not received any response, other than the apathetic forward you sent me from Mr. Corty, from my letter to the editor. Thus, the damage to the MagneGas Technology and planet Earth continues because of SP Times shameless practices and lack of accountability.
Human decency prevents me from dragging the other victims into this that personally informed me of the outrageous, disturbing, and insinuating calls from the SP Times staff writer Carie Weimar. Everyone has been embarrassed and aggravated enough from the stressful fear of an implied lawsuits. If the SP Times does not admit to their wrong doings and at the very least make a public apology and reprimand the writer for her unethical practices, I will then put you directly in touch with these public officials and private sector businesses, with their approval, so they can confirm to you first hand of the harm caused to them.
I'm sure the public would like to know about the non-existence of accountability and ethical standards of the newspaper that circulates 330,000 daily for "unbiased" information that is in place to protect them from injustices; not to cause them. This news of a multimillion dollar conglomerate is much more relevant than the inappropriately claimed "rambling" personality of a benevolent private citizen and environmental physicist. I suppose Miss Weimar would have interviewed and labeled Albert Einstein as a "rambling, stumbling, and bumbling buffoon!"
It is simply unacceptable for a newspaper that is for the people to willfully attack a fledgling environmental company without cause at such a critical junction of climate change. This is far worse than the made up stories of movie stars in the National Enquirer. This is capitalism gone wrong. I government controlled newspaper would be better for the people than this type of irresponsible journalism.
I have blind copied other interested and involved parties as well as CCed news sources and I recommend that each of you respond without any influence of mine to let editor/CEO Mr. Nash timespresident@... know how you feel about these ethical practices and the content of the article.
Please pass this letter on to all of those that would be interested because the Earth's future depends on it and PLEASE publish it on your site. My original letter to the editor/CEO is below as well as a letter from Luisa Ingargiola.
Sincerely,
Bo Linton
President - MagneGas Corporation
original story by SP Times
Dear Editor Tash,
I have a great concern about the ethics of your writer Carie Weimar and now the St. Petersburg Times. However; as an honorable and ethical person I would like to give you, the chief editor and CEO, the opportunity to address this situation and make it right.
The St. Petersburg Times published an article on On May 9, 2007 authored by Carie Weimar about Prof. Ruggero Santilli. The ethics of the writer was horrendous at best. Miss Weimar arranged an interview with Dr. Santilli under the pretence that she was going to do a profile on the technology and discuss the facts behind this earth saving invention. She would then report that she visited the facility and validated the process.
Graciously, Dr. Santilli spent an entire afternoon of his valuable time working with this lady with the understanding that it was for the purpose of promoting the green technology and helping the planet. Instead she intentionally misled him and gathered information about our company and contacted many of our important customers and put the fear of a lawsuit from Dr. Santilli (implying MagneGas Corporation) into them. This made our environmental company appear to be run by an unsavory lawsuit chasing lunatic. She called our customers and contacts and stated," I'm calling about the lawsuit with Dr. Santilli."
When they asked, "What lawsuit?"
She stated, "I can't say."
I know this is a fact because I was called and told so by several people that received this very call.
This is obviously very damaging to us and caused many people unnecessary stress and internal complications.
Why state a lawsuit in the first place if you cannot discuss it?
Specifically when the people she contacted had nothing to do with and were not named in the mentioned lawsuits. The fact is we do not know the extent of the damage caused to us because many of our contacts may simply have chosen not to deal with us anymore out of a fear of being sued by the "litigation happy scientist." It is clear that she made these calls to stir everybody up with no regard to the harm it caused the people involved just to stimulate a story.
The most important issue is that the MagneGas Technology is critical in this era to stop the destruction of the ecosystem. An attack on an environmental scientist in today's times is damaging to every person and every creature on this planet and in this planets' future. Why someone would publish an article like this about a person that has dedicated his life to protecting the planet, in a non violent benevolent way, is beyond me.
I hope you can have a talk with your ethical department and remedy these sorts of disgraceful rants in your paper. Too much is at stake now and we must not bring harm to the ones that will save us and our children. It is our duty as humans to protect the likes of Dr. Santilli and his work, not tear him down.
Please tell me the reason for publishing this article. As it is written it only appears to serve as a written record to harm MagneGas Corporation when people perform a google search on us. Beyond that who cares to read about an environmental scientists legitimate case against those that plagiarize him? Being a writer yourself I am sure you can understand suing someone that steals your copyrighted material without the decency of giving you the credit you deserve.
I look forward to your reply and remedy.
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Sincerely,
Bo Linton - President
MagneGas Corporation
www.magnegas.com
phone (310)-227-1772
fax (310)-844-7800
I would like to express my disappointment at the article written by Carrie Weimar regarding Dr. Santilli.
Dr. Santilli has invented a technology that converts sewage to fuel. A fuel that has lower green house gas emissions than any fossil fuel. He has potentially solved the global warming problem and has given us a solution to foreign fuel dependence right here in Tarpon Springs! I think your readers would be much more interested to hear about a local scientist that has a solution to their high gas prices and global warming than to hear about a vague scientific ethics lawsuit! Many people that have read her article have come to me in shock at the fact that the St Pete Times completely missed the greater good of what he is doing and have completely lost faith in Ms. Weimar's ability to write an unbiased professional article with any relevance to today's real issues.
I think that your readers deserve much better. I will guarantee that if you polled your readers and asked "Would you rather read about a local scientist that has potentially solved global warming and foreign fuel dependence and is presenting at the UN or about a scientist that has a vague complicated physics ethics lawsuit?" 100% would rather hear about the good that he has done to save our planet. I am shocked that you would allow a reporter such as Ms. Weimar to continue her work after such a unprofessional, biased, one sided article that I am sure had generated very little interest from your readers.
Sincerely
Luisa Ingargiola , CFO
US Magnefuels, Inc.
On 5/11/07, Sterling D. Allan <sterlingda@... > wrote:
Hi Andy,Your response relates to the article, but not the allegations of what took place in process of preparing the article.What about Bo Linton's allegations (particularly in bold) thatShe called Dr. Santilli and asked to interview him about MagneGas. He accepted and came over to our facility and took pictures and discussed the technology.After that, without telling us, she contacted everyone he discussed and said "I am calling about the lawsuit with Dr. Santilli."She called people that had nothing to do with the lawsuit with Dr. Santilli and scared the hell out of them making them think Dr. Santilli was suing them. She called people we are doing business with and it nearly killed the deals. It was the most reckless attacking form of journalism I have ever heard of.It is that portion of Bo's assertion that is most concerning to me, and which seems to constitute grounds for which Magnegas could bring legal action against SP Times, and which I am inclined to expose through my news outlet, and which I would like a response from SP Times.Sterling----- Original Message -----From: <ACorty@... >To: <sterlingda@... >Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 1:03 PMSubject: Dr. Santilli Article>
> Sterling Allan --
>
> This note is in response to your request for a comment for your Pure Energy
> Systems electronic newsletter about a Times article that ran on 5/9/07.
> "The St. Petersburg Times stands behind the article about Dr. Santilli and
> Magnegas. If they have a factual error to report, I hope they will
> contact me directly. We also publish frequent letters to the editor and
> would be pleased to consider their submission."
>
> Please feel free to contact me with further questions or comments.
>
> With best regards, /Andy Corty
>
> Andrew P. Corty
> V.P. & Corporate Secretary
> Times Publishing Company
> P.O. Box 1121
> St. Petersburg, FL 33731
> voice 727/893-8204 fax 727/892-2328
> email to: acorty@...
>
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