Apparently GW initially heard about the CSSK paper in PRD or, it seems, a related paper in Nature - Staszek then redirected GW to a more interesting paper - ours :).
(One of) the PR(s) announcing acceptance of CSSK paper to PRL is here: http://www.aip.org/pnu/2004/split/685-1.html
This makes more sense in understanding how the dependent media work - they generally only start from stuff which is officially distributed from up above by the Politbiuro ;),
Is AIP a Politbiuro? If not, then where is the Politbiuro that controls AIP? Whitehouse.gov? And who says that what AIP distributes is more "official" than what other parties do? (I'm just curious.)
But then they want to publish quickly, before the excitement from the Politbiuro announcement becomes "old news", which is why there is not much time to negotiate press releases where the people who really know have time to prepare something and to insist on something like a link to
http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kszta%C5%82t_Wszech%C5%9Bwiata .
Anyway, given the circumstances, i think Staszek got a good result. :)
Well, Jacek Kuroń, one of the leaders of Polish anti-communist movement in 70-ties (later Solidarność activist) said once: "Don't burn Politburo - establish your own." (Not exact quotation but never mind.) Even if we assume that AIP is a kinda of Politbiuro (?) and GW is inspired by them then why-oh-why didn't we write to GW on 25 Feb when the 1st draft of the paper was posted on astro-ph??! Why didn't we point their attention to both our result and the http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kszta%C5%82t_Wszech%C5%9Bwiata *then*? I'm pretty sure they would get interested.
Conclusion: IMHO, it's better to blame ourselves than "dark forces" that govern the world.
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