He still believed that the atom was the smallest unit of matter, and that it could not be bvroken down. He believed in Democritus' theory of the atom looking like a marble. John Dalton also tried to calculate the atomic weight of compounds. He also tried to come up with the atomic stuructures of atoms.
Flanagan described what happened to him as âvirtual mobbing.â It means a large number of angry people ganging up by email, blog, tweet, and other electronic means, to denormalize, demonize, and ultimately destroy the one deemed a public enemy.
Now, more than a year after the virtual mobbing of Mellen Press (in most respects a revival of the mobbing at Toronto two decades earlier), is a good time to begin more sober, critical, contextualized, thoughtful analyses of what transpired, why, how, and with what effects.