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The author says "Petrofsky was a lavishly honored star of the IEEE", but I was unable to find any honors he got besides an award for a paper in an IEEE journal

by mturmon 13y ago

The author says "Petrofsky was a lavishly honored star of the IEEE", but I was unable to find any honors he got besides an award for a paper in an IEEE journal (http://ieee-aess.org/contacts/award-recipient/jerrold-s-petrofsky http://ieee-aess.org/contacts/award-recipient/jerrold-s-petr... -- there could be other awards, but they don't show up in google). I thought "lavishly honored" would be shorthand for IEEE Fellow, but Petrofsky is not on the Fellows list. Saying his work was prematurely made into a biopic starring Judd Hirsch is not an indictment of science...

GalacticDomin8r 13y ago
Also he seems to lay at the feet of Petrofsky the failure of any further progess in the area and even seems to insinuate Petrofsky misled people intentionally. I don't follow him on point one, it seems a non-sequitur. As for the second, I'm going to quote a section from one of the articles he linked to: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “That was just for that event,” Davis, now Nan Huckeriede, said of her brief, but famous walk at graduation. “It was the computer-controlled electric stimulation, not me.” Davis had met Petrofsky while she was in college. “I was attending the WSU Lake Campus, and went to a spinal cord society conference there,” she says from her St. Marys home. “Jerry (Petrofsky) was a presenter, and afterwards, I introduced myself and told him I was interested in his research. “For about a month, I drove back and forth to Dayton to work with him, and then I transferred to the Dayton campus.” Following her graduation walk, Davis returned to her wheelchair, stayed in Dayton a few years, married, and then returned to St. Marys. “Jerry moved to California and stopped his research — I think he felt that he had gone as far as he could,” said Huckeriede. “But I still use the equipment he developed to get my exercise.” Last summer she traveled to Beijing for a procedure to strengthen her back and stomach muscles. “It didn’t work, but I knew it was experimental. It was worth a try.” -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Given all this, my take away is that John Horgan has axe to grind for almost 20 years now and it's still not sharp.
- mturmon 13y ago
  Nice find. That kind of testimonial from the subject of the work is really important. Another relevant item. The magazine he wrote for, The Institute, is a general-interest magazine of feature stories related to IEEE members. It's not a technical journal. It's more akin to the feature newsletters published by universities or engineering schools and sent to their alumni. The general-interest technical IEEE journal is Proc. IEEE, which is peer-reviewed and contains research articles and research summaries written by the experts themselves.

by mturmon 13y ago

GalacticDomin8r 13y ago

Also he seems to lay at the feet of Petrofsky the failure of any further progess in the area and even seems to insinuate Petrofsky misled people intentionally. I don't follow him on point one, it seems a non-sequitur. As for the second, I'm going to quote a section from one of the articles he linked to: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “That was just for that event,” Davis, now Nan Huckeriede, said of her brief, but famous walk at graduation. “It was the computer-controlled electric stimulation, not me.” Davis had met Petrofsky while she was in college. “I was attending the WSU Lake Campus, and went to a spinal cord society conference there,” she says from her St. Marys home. “Jerry (Petrofsky) was a presenter, and afterwards, I introduced myself and told him I was interested in his research. “For about a month, I drove back and forth to Dayton to work with him, and then I transferred to the Dayton campus.” Following her graduation walk, Davis returned to her wheelchair, stayed in Dayton a few years, married, and then returned to St. Marys. “Jerry moved to California and stopped his research — I think he felt that he had gone as far as he could,” said Huckeriede. “But I still use the equipment he developed to get my exercise.” Last summer she traveled to Beijing for a procedure to strengthen her back and stomach muscles. “It didn’t work, but I knew it was experimental. It was worth a try.” -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Given all this, my take away is that John Horgan has axe to grind for almost 20 years now and it's still not sharp.

mturmon 13y ago
Nice find. That kind of testimonial from the subject of the work is really important. Another relevant item. The magazine he wrote for, The Institute, is a general-interest magazine of feature stories related to IEEE members. It's not a technical journal. It's more akin to the feature newsletters published by universities or engineering schools and sent to their alumni. The general-interest technical IEEE journal is Proc. IEEE, which is peer-reviewed and contains research articles and research summaries written by the experts themselves.