User talk:2603:9001:6B02:657:3883:80D6:BC76:9595

April 2023

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Hello. I recently edited Dr. Charles Pellegrino's page. Dr. Pellegrino has been my scientific mentor for over 20 years, and I noticed a great deal of errors and selective reporting on his page. Rather than feature the large volume of professional contributions he has made throughout the span of his career, his Wikipedia page features largely slanderous content, which has proven highly damaging to such a kind and genuine man's career for the past 13 years. Much of the information presented is entirely incorrect as well, and my efforts to prove this and attempt to remove the erroneous content from his page continue to be overturned. Surely, there must be an avenue to rectify all these errors and harmful content. I see and read many objective pages of public figures on Wikipedia, but Dr. Pellegrino's is gravely different - featuring mostly negative content, presumably added by a critic or professional rival, or simply a troll.

I have seen direct evidence of Dr. Pellegrino having earned his PhD for example. Victoria University at Wellington's library records department emailed his thesis, published in the peer-reviewed journal Crustaceana (and cited in other peer-reviewed research) to me directly. I have screenshots of their website where a profile for him was created in their database stating "Doctoral Degree Awarded." The page was later removed when the university no longer wished to be associated with media attention, but I have a record of the page. He was even awarded a post-doctoral. grant, which is only possible after having earned a doctorate. Sadly, Dr. Pellegrino is the victim of poor journalism and biased reporting in the media, because I assure you that he did not falsely claim to have earned a PhD, and many of his early works chronicle how he was persecuted by creationists for focusing his thesis efforts on evolution-based science. His awarded degree was placed on "Restricted Status" but was still awarded, and I have seen direct evidence of this from the university itself, because as a student, I requested his published doctoral thesis from the university records department itself, and it was explicitly digitized from print and emailed to me directly from the source itself. Regardless, Dr. Pellegrino almost never uses the title Dr. in his books at all, out of humility.

A section of the page features a "review" by Michael Parfit. But this is unfortunate, because this "reviewer" was a writer who was bumped off the 1996 Titanic expedition by the expedition leader George Tulloch himself, in favor of taking Dr. Pellegrino instead, since the latter was both a writer and scientist rather than only an author. It was a highly biased review of Pellegrino's book by a bitter source and not reflective of the content at all.

I understand that Dr. Pellegrino made a mistake trusting Joe Fuoco's claim that he had been involved with the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But Dr. Pellegrino was a victim in this situation, of someone who had exaggerated their war record to be featured more prominently in history and an author's book. Pellegrino admitted his mistake, apologized, and corrected the error in a subsequent book release. Many first edition books can feature such errors. But Dr. Pellegrino did the honorable thing, by owning up to the mistake, admitting he had been "duped" and taking corrective action. Why would the single mistake in what has been an otherwise celebrated book be a career-defining moment for his entire body of work and page?

I have attempted multiple times to add positive contributions Dr. Pellegrino has made, only to be accused of "white washing" the page in Pellegrino's favor, or posting "promotional content." How are verifiable contributions to science "promotional material" but all these highlighted low points of a person's life somehow the objective truth? Is a person's worth really only the challenges they have faced? Or their rectified errors? Dr. Robert Ballard credits Pellegrino in his international bestseller "Discovery of the Titanic" for the Downblast theory for example, and naval engineer Parks Stephenson has come out in support of the theory on his Facebook page, but Wikipedia refused to allow me to add it. Michael Crichton credits Pellegrino with inspiring his novel "Jurassic Park" in his book, but again, I could not even add this to a new section I had created called "Scientific Contributions."

Nothing positive has been permissible on the page. And a lot of the negative has been refuted with evidence, but has not been removed. Whatever dedicated individual has devoted themselves to maintaining Dr. Pellegrino's page has only permitted negative content to be communicated, and at the very least, I would hope that a more well-rounded, objective overview of Dr. Pellegrino's career and contributions be posted. There is no reason to have a "controversies" section, and out of all those listed, only the Last Train from Hiroshima error is legitimate, but was also corrected... so I just do not see the purpose of this poor man suffering for such an innocent error that was addressed, in light of all the good he has done. Including having dived to the Titanic wreck, and currently working with James Cameron on Cameron's next film following Avatar, which is regarding Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Cameron purchased rights to the book for adaptation to film). Of course, none of this has been permitted on the page...

I request your assistance in revising this page and helping Dr. Pellegrino recover from the negative light he has unfairly been cast with by it please. Thank you.

2603:9001:6B02:657:3883:80D6:BC76:9595 (talk) 03:38, 25 April 2023 (UTC)

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