* Nick, the document at the link shows that Tennen sued Winter and Winter appeared pro se, i.e. without a lawyer. He was not prosecuted by the govt. If he doesn't know the law very well and can't afford a lawyer, I can understand how he may have lost the suit wrongfully and why he hasn't paid the plaintiffs. I don't know that that's the case, but I can understand how it might be the case. I believe Winter has stated the opposite on his own website. I plan to look over his site more shortly, and, if there seems to be stuff that's useful, which would be nice, but, if not, I'll try to share my findings either way.
* I see that this site,
http://www.casakhuan.org, has some interesting "negative" info about Winter. Here's a sample from the site:
- Back to Dan's phrase "unethical stealing".. the following probably sketches his learning curve which he believes has made his stealing ethical:
First, simply start stealing others' ideas and publish them without reference..
Oops.. people don't like that.. well, then let's add their names but distort the original story so that it fits my bill..
Oops.. people still aren't entirely stupid. Allright, well here's the ethical deal: publish their original work, undistorted and with proper reference, and claim they actually stole it from me (or, if no-one would ever believe that, it was "suggested" by me..)
- That sounds elegant no? Well, the saddest of all is this. Once I gave a presentation on the NeuroGem in one of the medical faculties here in the Netherlands, for a group of anaesthesiologists who are also into research. There was keen interest, but the moment I referred to Phi, the Golden Mean ratio, their team leader almost walked out of the room. This is the result, and I can hardly blame him. Dan Winter not only abuses others' ideas and inventions, science in general, and his worldwide audience (authentic quote: "they don't understand it anyway"..) but most sadly, his own object of worship, Phi itself. Golden Mean ratio is indeed relevant in biophysics, especially related to peak experience. You can prove it and it has been proven in multiple ways: mathematically, numerically, empirically (color geometry) and in biophysics (NeuroGem and, indirectly, CardioGem). But absolutely none of this by Dan Winter himself. His newest pet theory, Phi in hydrogen, also doesn't stand because it is not a recursive set, and hence trivial in respect to wave coherence in creational process, as he claims.
* It's too bad that Winter does seem to be a plagiarist etc, but at least this all brings up some interesting findings by the real inventors, which I might not have come across otherwise. So this apparently isn't necessarily a total loss.