Letters from various scientists complaining of plagiarism by Thomas Gold, and from Russian scientists rejecting paper(s) by Gold for reasons of lack of originality and failure of attribution.

 
 
3. Letter of John Briggs, Department of Journalism, Western Connecticut State University, to Professor V. A. Krayushkin, questioning the claims of Thomas Gold as originator of modern (Russian) petroleum science, dated 15 December 1989.
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Letter of Professor V. A. Krayushkin, Institute of Geological Sciences, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, to John Briggs, specifying and demonstrating the extent and sources of the plagiarism by Thomas Gold of the modern Russian-Ukrainian theory of deep, abiotic petroleum origins, dated 16 January 1990.
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Letter of Dr. Richard A. Donofrio, Astro Geological Research, to editor of Atlantic Monthly, complaining of plagiarism by Thomas Gold of his [Donofrio's] work connected with bolide impact sites as potential prospects for petroleum exploration, dated May 1986.
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Letter of Dr. C. Warren Hunt, Archean Petroleum, to Dr. Eugene Mallove, editor of Infinite Energy, complaining of plagiarism by Thomas Gold of his [Hunt's] ideas and speculations of a creation of petroleum by microbial action, dated 01 August 1989.
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7. Letter of Dr. I. N. Plotnikova, on behalf of the Organizing Committee for the International Petroleum Conference commemorating the semicentennial enunciation of modern petroleum science by N. A. Kudryavtsev, held in Kazan June 2001, rejecting, for lack of originality and failure to credit properly previous scientific work, a paper which Thomas Gold had tried to insinuate into the Proceedings of that conference.
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