Saturday, July 10, 2010

Become a follower

Fine.. Not everyone wants to donate... roughly 99.9% of the readers. ;-) However, I would be very grateful if you became a follower of my blog. So you show appreciation for my work. Just click on the Follow link in the top right border. Thank you!

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Tom -

Do any Self-Help Groups, ASHA, Jane Fraser/SFA or any other speech/language professional organizations currently financially support your blog?

Thanks -
$$$ that stutter

Tom Weidig said...

NO!

I am setting time aside to write the posts, and I am spending my time and money to attend conferences...

I have received donations between 10 and 100 euros, but in total no more than maybe 200-300 euros in two years.

Harry said...

Thanks for the time and effort you put into this log.....but....er.....you cannot expect people to pay for your 'holidays'. Going to conferences in a matter of choice.

Tom Weidig said...

Harry,

that is just a stupid and insulting remark!! :-(

Conferences attendance is absolutely crucial for the blog:

1) important for networking and to discuss with scientists, therapists, and pws the latest news.

2) to give talks

The scientists and therapists are paid all expenses and the days are working days...

I am seriously angry about your stupid idiotic remark. I am spending so much time and money working on this....

How do you think I have all this up-to-date knowledge and are one of the best connected??? Because I know many leading people PERSONALLY at conferences!

Seriously, I get more and more angry.... I better stop writing!

Tom Weidig said...

In fact all of you including myself are paying taxes/contributions of which a small proportion is allocated to health services to pay therapists, and an even smaller proportion is allocated to teaching academics and scientists.

Who is paying me? No-one. And I am 100% sure that I add more value that some academics and researchers.

Harry said...

Tom said:
"I am seriously angry about your stupid idiotic remark."
Yes...that's the problem with you - you just get offensive and abusive
when you don't see someone else's point of view. Not a desirable quality to have for a rational 'scientist'.

Tom said :
"I am spending so much time and money working on this...."
And who's forcing you to do that? You do it because you choose to do it. You get a lot of non-financial gain out of this, hence your motivation to spend so much of your time and effort in this blog.
If you enjoy what you do, then carry on doing it and stop pleading for others to pay for your hobby; if not, then give it up. Simple.

"The scientists and therapists are paid all expenses and the days are working days..."
Of course, because this is their full-time job. In the same way that you get paid for whatever you
do in your normal day job.
Are you jealous by any chance?

"Who is paying me? No-one. And I am 100% sure that I add more value that some academics and researchers."
Of course you do, and there are many academics and researchers who add more value than you do.
And who exactly should be paying you? People like me? For what exactly are we paying you? For reading your blog? How many blogs charge their readers?
The blog you created is a mouth-piece for you to hurl abuse at some very highly respected people in the field; it's a convenient tool for you to get your anger (of which you possess in abundance) and frustrations out.
You're doing it for yourself Tom, so don't kid yourself into thinking you're some kind of a
martyr representing the stuttering world.

Tom Weidig said...

If I don't add some value, why do you think 1000 people read my blog per week?

What exactly to you do to help people who stutter?

>> The blog you created is a mouth-piece for you to hurl abuse at some very highly respected people in the field

Those "very highly respected people" are mediocre scientists that are responsible for the appalling state of stuttering research and treatment.


>> you just get offensive and abusive
when you don't see someone else's point of view.

You mean someone's fallacious point of view. Absolutely, because their sloppy work harms the whole field.

Harry said...

Tom wrote :
Those "very highly respected people" are mediocre scientists that are responsible for the appalling state of stuttering research and treatment.

Mediocre scientists? That's your opinion. And how would you know what a mediocre scientist is, when you're not a real scientist yourself?

Let me see - you have a PhD, and you stutter. So, why not become a respected scientist in the stuttering field? Maybe because you couldn't reach the levels of being even a mediocre scientist?

"If I don't add some value, why do you think 1000 people read my blog per week?"
I didn't say you don't add some value - read my post again.
For a aperson working in risk management, you're very careless.

As for your envy of other scientists, let me get this right :

1) 'mediocre' scientists are being paid by organisations to work for them;
2) no one is prepared to pay a self-proclaimed 'scientist' like yourself for stuttering work.

So, what does that tell you Tom?

Tom Weidig said...

>> Mediocre scientists? That's your opinion. And how would you know what a mediocre scientist is, when you're not a real scientist yourself?

Well, I was an active real scientist. I studied at Imperial College London, and was a visiting scholar twice at Trinity College University of Cambridge. Two world class university. And in a very difficult field, namely theoretical physics. I worked with leading scientists, and many friends of mine are now professors. I KNOW what a good scientist is.

>> Let me see - you have a PhD, and you stutter. So, why not become a respected scientist in the stuttering field?

Good question. I had some offers, but refused as it was a dead-end. The simple fact is that I do not have a speech/language PhD and would never be able to go far just because that's how academia is. Ironically, many PhDs in the field are really weak scientists because their supervisors are just really bad ...

>> Maybe because you couldn't reach the levels of being even a mediocre scientist?

A leading professor from a leading university told me that "I am one of the few sane brains in the field". Another one who is very well known wants to write an article with me...

>> For a person working in risk management, you're very careless.

In which way?

>> 1) 'mediocre' scientists are being paid by organisations to work for them;

Absolutely, much research is a complete waste of time, because the researchers are just bad scientists... that's a well known fact.

they might well be good teachers and clinicians, but when they try to do science they are just very very bad...


>> 2) no one is prepared to pay a self-proclaimed 'scientist' like yourself for stuttering work. So, what does that tell you Tom?

The system is corrupt...