The below comments were earlier posted by Professor the Hon Stephen Martin in Dec 2013. We are resending the same on behalf of Professor the Hon Stephen Martin and with his full knowledge, consent and permission as it was not posted previously.
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Mr Jeffrey Beall
UCD
Via Email
I am writing to you with respect to your comments on your blog that would appear to impugn my association with Global Science and Technology Forum (GSTF).
I would like to put it on record that I have been associated with Dr Anton Ravindran and GSTF even before its inception. My current association is in the capacity of member of the Governing Board, along with a number of highly qualified and reputable academics. I wish to categorically state that I have no issue with GSTF’s integrity and the manner in which they conduct themselves.
As such, I would ask that you immediately remove the comments about me on your blog as the innuendo implied is both inappropriate and misleading to any reader.
You may wish to note that I am in complete agreement with Professor Emanuel Grant’s comments to you and have read the correspondence between yourself and Dr Sundar.
Should you not agree to remove any reference to me an appropriate alternative would be to post this email directly on your blog.
If your intentions and objectives are genuine, professional and scholarly as you claim, then it should be done in a manner exhibiting objectivity and transparency foremost, else your blog is a mockery both to yourself and any academic institution you may be associated with. Your blog in its present form is a platform for petty, personal and vindictive comments under a self-assumed guise of an authority for scholarly commentary.
Your immediate attention to this matter is requested.
Professor the Hon Stephen Martin
