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I am presently preparing a blog post that details those events, as well as others from a year previous, when an attempt was made to prevent me from speaking at the 2010 FAIR conference. That led directly to the later suppression of the scroll-length article.

Incidentally, the scroll-length paper consisted primarily of calculations based on the first substantial set of forensic measurements ever made of any ancient Egyptian scroll, insofar as Professor Gee has been able to determine. The measurements of the thickness of the papyri were conducted employing a novel methodology, by a PhD expert in a relevant field, as Professor Gee assisted and I recorded the measurements. It also would have contained some of the first really high quality images of the papyri to be published. The paper had been reviewed and approved for publication by the Church Historian.*

Jerry Bradford, to my knowledge, knew all these things. And yet, because he had apparently been influenced by some to believe that the article was apologetic nonsense, he demanded that its publication be halted, and used a ridiculous smear piece prepared and/or promulgated by the same group of apostates (and their sympathizers) who have most recently been the recipients of the emails leaked from the Maxwell Institute.

It's a long and winding tale, and I hope to publish it to my blog within the next two or three days.





* = This should not be misinterpreted as suggesting that the Church Historian's office endorsed the contents of the article. But its approval was required, by contract, on account of my extensive use of high-resolution scan images from the Joseph Smith papryi.

consiglieri wrote:Mr. Schryver ... lays the blame squarely at the feet of . . . Gerald Bradford.

William Schryver wrote:Jerry Bradford [SNIP] used a ridiculous smear piece prepared and/or promulgated by the same group of apostates (and their sympathizers) who have most recently been the recipients of the emails leaked from the Maxwell Institute.

• I've never been Mormon, so it's impossible for me to be a "Mormon apostate" in any sense of the term.
• I don't sympathize with "Mormon apostates" any more than I sympathize with other kinds of Mormons. If anything, my sympathies for so-called "TBMs" are the strongest (hello, married to one).
• Nobody put me up to the misogyny thread. It was prepared entirely by me, with just one other member of MDB submitting a few of the quotes for a single section of the thread. Hardly a group effort.
• I have never been the recipient of leaked e-mails from the Maxwell Institute. On the contrary, two different Mormon apologists who have written for the Maxwell Institute---Dan Peterson and Russell C. McGregor---have posted private correspondence from me onto message boards without my permission.