Given the incredible amount of insults and hysterical comments that I received after submitting my article on arXiv, I would like to have opinions from real scientists on whether or not my article contains hateful language and/or racist statements.
The article is here: Preprint The Mamoudou Gassama Affair
Besides, is it legitimate to totally forget about scientific common sense just because a study can have some political consequences? Loosely quoting Einstein, aren't we supposed to seek for things as they are, instead of what some people wish they would be?
Dear V. G. Rousseau- I just finished reading your attachment and found no mathematical errors nor any unreasonable assumption. I appreciate your technical presentation but failed to see any explanation of the event that I happened to see on TV. Do you have any explanation besides your assertion that it was fake? Who would risk the life of a child for what we saw on TV? I believe you made a very good point but can't be as definitive as you were with your conclusion. Amir
We can make several hypotheses, but I insist that these are just hypotheses. I don't want to be accused of being a conspiracy adept:
- Mamoudou Gassama was an illegal immigrant, under the risk of being sent back to his country. There is a possibility that the rescue was staged so that he could perform his exploit and become a hero, and offered the French citizenship (which is what happened). Is it plausible that the parents would have purposely put their child at risk? Clearly yes, it is possible. We can read everyday in the news about irresponsible parents putting their own child at risk. Recent example: Parents who dropped their 6 yo child ten miles away from home to punish him, asking him to walk back on their own. Other example: Parent who put their 3 yo child naked outside their house at 3am by -15 degrees Celcius, because he refused to sleep. Note that, concerning the present case, there are people saying that we can clearly see that the child is wearing under his T-shirt a safety harness (see attached picture), and that the role of the neighbor (who didn't attempt anything to rescue the child) was to unclip the harness from the railing at the moment where Mamoudou lifted him up.
- Mamoudou Gassama could also be honest, and totally unaware of the real reason why the child was hanging on the railing. What was the child doing on the fourth floor then? Nobody was supposed to be in this apartment, but we can imagine that the father for some unknown reason broke into this apartment, followed by his child. Then he forgot that his child was there when he left.
Thanks V. G. Rousseau for providing additional clarifications. In my view, there is nothing hateful or racist about your article. It is purely rational technical argument. I actually enjoyed reading it!
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