You stand by your bias towards the religious. Say hello to Al Sharpton next time you see him. You at least have one thing in common, susceptability to card pulling.
RE: You stand by your bias towards the religious. Say hello to Al Sharpton next time you see him. You at least have one thing in common, susceptability to card pulling.
I stand by what I believe to be the FACTS. The accusation that he did not publish anything substantial while at ISU is pure malarkey and you ought to know that before invoking the “holy” ( note the quotes ) name of Al “I have a scheme” Sharpton.
Gonzalez was at ISU from 2001 to 2008. There are few folks trying to make a case that Gonzalez’s prestigious record of publication isn’t up to snuff, and that somehow he’s not been productive during his time at ISU. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Please note the high publication rate of Gonzalez compared to other ISU astronomers in 2006 ALONE !
Gonzalez’s raw publication count in 2006 alone was six publications — which was equaled only by one other astronomer in the department.
SEE THIS PDF FILE :
http://www.evolutionnews.org/GGAnnualData.pdf
Here are just samples of his REFEREED PUBLICATIONS (which he either authored or co-authored) DURING HIS TENURE AT ISU :
* G. Gonzalez and G. Wallerstein, “The Spectrum of VY Canis Majoris in 2000 February,” Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 113, 954 (2001).
* B. E. Reddy, G. Gonzalez, D. L. Lambert and D. Young, “Spectroscopic Analysis of Two Carbon-Rich Post-AGB Stars,” Astrophysical Journal, 564, 482 (2002).
* G. Gonzalez and E. J. Gaidos , “Stellar Atmospheres of Nearby Young Solar Analogs,” New Astronomy, 7, 211 (2002).
* B. E. Reddy, G. Gonzalez, D. L. Lambert, C. Laws, and K. Covey, “A Search for 6Li in Stars with Planets,” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 335, 1005 (2002).
* J. Armstrong, L. E. Wells, and G. Gonzalez, “Rummaging through Earth’s Attic for Remains of Ancient Life,” Icarus, 160, 183 (2002).
* G. Gonzalez, “Stars, Planets, and Metals,” Reviews of Modern Physics, 75, 101 (2003) (invited review paper).
* L. E. Wells, J. Armstrong, and G. Gonzalez, “Reseeding of Early Earth by Impacts of Returning Ejecta During the Late Heavy Bombardment,” Icarus, 162, 38 (2003).
* G. Gonzalez, C. Laws, K. M. Walker, S. Tyagi, K. Snider, J. Dodsworth, K. Snider, and N. B. Suntzeff, “Parent Stars of Extrasolar Planets VII: New Abundance Analyses of 30 Systems,” Astronomical Journal, 125, 2664 (2003).
* K. R. Covey, G. Gonzalez, G. Wallerstein, A. D. Vanture, and N. B. Suntzeff, “A Reinvestigation of the Possible Metallicity Spread in NGC 3201,” Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 115, 819 (2003).
* C. Laws and G. Gonzalez, “A Re-evaluation of the Super Li-rich star J37 in NGC 6633,” Astrophysical Journal, 595, 1148 (2003).
* G. Tautvaisiene, G. Wallerstein, D. Geisler, G. Gonzalez, and C. Charbonnel, “Elemental Abundances of three Red Giants in Terzan 7, a Globular Cluster Associated with the Sagittarius Galaxy,” Astronomical Journal, 127, 373 (2004).
* I. I. Ivans, C. Sneden, G. Wallerstein, R. P. Kraft, J. E. Norris, J. P. Fulbright, and G. Gonzalez, “On the Question of a Metallicity Spread in Globular Cluster M22 (NGC 6656),” Memorie della Societa Astronomica Italiana, 75, 286 (2004).
* D. Geisler, V. V. Smith, G. Wallerstein, G. Gonzalez, and C. Charbonnel, “’Sculptor’-ing the Galaxy? The Chemical Compositions of Red Giants in the Sculptor Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy,” Astronomical Journal, 129, 1428 (2005).
* S. Giridhar, D. L. Lambert, B. E. Reddy, G. Gonzalez, D. Yong, “Abundance Analyses of Field RV Tauri Stars, VI: An Extended Sample,” Astrophysical Journal, 627, 432 (2005).
* G. Gonzalez, “Habitable Zones in the Universe,” Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, 35, 555 (2005).
* G. Gonzalez, “Condensation Temperatures Trends Among Stars with Planets,” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 367, L37 (2006).
* G. Gonzalez, “The Sun’s Interior Metallicity Constrained by Neutrinos,” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 370, L90 (2006).
* G. Gonzalez, “Indium Abundance Trends Among Sun-like Stars,” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 371, 781 (2006).
* G. Gonzalez, “The Chemical Compositions of Stars with Planets: A Review,” Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 118, 1494 (2006) (invited review paper).
* A. D. Vanture, V. V. Smith, J. Lutz, G. Wallerstein, D. Lambert, G. Gonzalez, “Correlation Between Lithium and Technetium Absorption Lines in the Spectra of Galactic S Stars,” Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 119, 147 (2007).
And oh yeah, those are just a SUBSET of his SCORES of publications BEFORE his tenure at ISU.
I am not going to bore you with his writings for Scientific American or other contributed papers he wrote between 2001 and 2008.
Additionally, an extremely important measure of a scientist’s reputation is the impact his or her research is having upon a field as measured by the number of citations to that scientist’s work in research articles by other scientists. In short, the more times a scientist’s work has been cited by others, the greater the impact of his work on his particular field.
By this standard, Iowa State University (ISU) astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez has performed incredibly well, despite his denial of tenure by ISU.
No matter how they spin it, one thing is clear, Gonzalez was professionally QUALIFIED for tenure.
Intolerant Darwinists at ISU just didn’t want to give it to him because he’s a proponent of intelligent design.