Talk:Robert Lawrence Kuhn

message: This article looks like a hagiography created by one user using a series of sockpuppets. History shows editing by a series of IP addresses, each address has only been used to edit the biography. Author has highly detailed knowledge. If this is not outright autobiography then it's at least someone who knows the author down to the contents of his CV....--Saganaki- 07:28, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe you are correct. It definitely appears to be the work of one person. ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 05:59, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hagiography/Autobiography? 

message: Since this is a single article about one individual it is necessary to show continuity in this article in the same manner that a human life has continuity. One may be born. Go to school. Go to work for entity (a). Go to work for entity (b), etc., etc. However, since human life is a continuous process and not a series of "chapter breaks" that have beginnings and endings and blank spots in between, it is necessary to reflect connections and relationships.
This applies to the period of the WCG and AICF, which while they relate to each other are actually subtexts of activities within one timeline. To decapitate The Plain Truth article by listing it in passing as if it was the product of an independent publishing house would not be a true relection of reality. When we factor in your interest in mind-body (shades of Descartes and perhaps Koestler) which flows directly into your WCG writings which in turn flows directly into the theological ovehaul of a Christian sect by a member of the Jewish faith (that is mind-boggling all by itself - sort of like a Moslem overhauling the Catholic faith), but which is in turn tied to mind-body interest that both predates and postdates the WCG (phew!) it is necessary for the sake and sanity of the dear reader, to show how all of this fits together within the context of a single human lifespan.
Since it appears that an interested reader can access all of your articles in The Plain Truth series from that single listed source, it is better to leave that source where it is because the links are there and the context is also there. Wikipedia thrives on NPOV and clearly the librarian administering the linked texts has not attempted to interfere with or modify or corrupt the cyber content of the magazines. As to their location they might by compared, say, to a Methodist Library or a Baptist Library or a Catholic Library. In other words the location is not important.
The only suggestion relating to suject of "spirit in man / immortal soul" is that any of your writings for the WCG on this central subject that are available from the same cyber library mentioned above, should also be linked.
*See below about the five mind-brain articles, which I scanned into one file and which, collectively, tell the complete story (as of 1972).  How to upload these efficiently so they can be easily accessed?  The current posting seems to be only the January 1972 issue, which contains only the first of the five articles and also includes the issue entire magazine.  Better to have one file with all five articles (it includes two covers).  How to access this? I uploaded but cannot get a download beyond the first page - see below.
On the subject of AICF, perhaps the end-line: "which may have some resonance with Kuhn’s later career." should read "which may have run parallel to Kuhn's later career" From what you have already stated Rader/Armstrong seem to have been active in China during the same period of time that you became active in China.
*I can accept your wording, with this modification - "which may have had parallels to Kuhn's later career" .  I never would have stated that "Rader/Armstrong seem to have been active in China during the same period of time that you became active in China."  Armstrong was three years dead (1986) when I first went to China (1989), invited by the Science establishment, and I didn't begin serious work there until 1994/5.  
It would distort the article to separate WCG/AICF since the reader would not have any idea of how and why all of these related interests flow together. In that same regard it would be helpful if you could explain how you came into contact with the WCG since the article does explain how you parted company with the WCG and in the same vein you have already explained (although it still needs to be worked into the article), how you became affiliated with PBS. Therefore the article should explain how the WCG episode began. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.129.159.171 (talk) 21:33, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment on this section

message: The controversy surrounding this biography has been removed to the Jiang Zemin article which was demanding attention and sources cited. That article also requires clean-up and Dr. Kuhn might wish to lend his time to performing that task and removing some of the duplication relating to him within the External sources section. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.128.85.142 (talk) 00:16, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jiang Zemin biography 

message: I am concerned this article is way too long given the subject.
I am also concerned that the biography was written by the subject himself and is a full of self-promotion.
I don't understand why an fully educated professional like Dr. Kuhn needs to grandise himself on Wikipedia with a giant biography?  Why not just create a website for yourself and put everything you did in your life on there?
If you do feel the need to create a Wikipedia biography, how about one that is a few lines long describing yourself for the easy and quick reference of the Internet community?  That is appropiate considering you have produced a PBS-broadcast television series.
I feel Mr. Kuhn's use of Wikipedia in this manner is childish, immature and abuses the true purpose of this great resource.
Furthermore, his continuous desire to amend and correct every detailed aspect of his Wikipedia biography when others have questioned specific parts, all of these parts so specific that in acutality they are not even supposed to be part of a Wikipedia biography for a person of his notriety, strikes me as really bizzare.
To the Wikipedia editors, I recommened this article for immediate deletion in its current state.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.244.63.248 (talk) 14:21, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed deletion 

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replies: text: Can someone check "Factual Errors, Please Help" below? Many thanks. Analysis357 (talk) 04:30, 14 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I see that someone has added a new first sentence under "Criticism", that is factually not correct: "The fact of Kuhn making residence in Beijing, China, as well as taking payment from the CCP for the majority of his personal compensation, either directly or via purchases of his books, has brought much criticism on Kuhn and the neutrality of his works." 
I have never made residence in Beijing or anywhere other than in the U.S., though I have made many trips to China, mostly to Beijing. (I have not been to China since the beginning of the pandemic in January 2020.) I have never taken payment from the CCP, and while I have been paid for my commentaries (written and video) and TV productions, and for several books, these amounts were modest and in accord with industry standards, and constitute in the aggregate over the years a minuscule percentage of my personal income, which has come from investment banking, corporate advisory, sales of businesses that I helped build, and personal investments. 
Wikipedia requires sourcing and references. Here there are none.
People have every right to criticize my commentaries, which I welcome, but not to make stuff up about my life and present it as fact.
Moreover, the excerpts of criticisms of my work are so skewed as if deliberate distortion, with the primary reference written in 2010 and vast others omitted. Perhaps the most thorough and recent investigative report of my activities in China, including criticism, was completely ignored - "Inside Man", published in The Wire China (founded and edited by Pulitzer Prize-winning, former New York Times investigative journalist David Barboza), September 27, 2020 - https://www.thewirechina.com/2020/09/27/inside-man/  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Analysis357 (talk • contribs) 03:40, 14 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: China Daily is a branch of the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party, not a SOE or media organization indirectly controlled by the party through the state. Surely you know that? If you received pay from China Daily you were paid directly by the CCP's publicity department. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 16:07, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Factual Errors, Please Help