Granville Sewell
- Professor of Mathematics at University of Texas, El Paso
Since the publisher’s public guidelines state that withdrawing an article after it has been accepted is only to be done in extreme cases, for example, when serious errors or plagiarism are discovered, I was afraid people would think that the journal had followed its own guidelines and would assume the paper was seriously flawed, or I had committed some sort of ethical crime.
Backstory
"A second look at the second law" published as preprint
January 19, 2011Applied Mathematics Letters accepts Sewell’s manuscript on January 19, 2011.
Applied Mathematics Letters withdraws Sewell's article.
Following a blogger’s objection, Applied Mathematics Letters withdraws Sewell’s story without notice.
Apology published
June 12, 2011After Sewell obtained legal assistance, Applied Mathematics Letters issued an apology.