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Nicholas Kollerstrom

Nicholas Kollerstrom (born 1946) is an English historian of science and author who is known for the promotion of Holocaust denial and other conspiracy theories.[2][3] Formerly an honorary research fellow in The Department for Science and Technology Studies (STS) at University College London (UCL), he is the author of several books, including Gardening and Planting by the Moon (an annual series beginning in 1980), Newton's Forgotten Lunar Theory (2000), Crop Circles (2002), and Terror on the Tube (2009). He has also written entries for the Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers.

Nicholas Kollerstrom
Born1946 (age 77–78)
EducationBA (1968), Natural Sciences, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
PhD (1995), history of science, University College London.
OccupationWriter
Known forHistory of science, lunar gardening, conspiracism, historical negationism[1]
Websitehttps://terroronthetube.co.uk/

Kollerstrom has been involved in a variety of issues as a political activist. In 1986 he co-founded the Belgrano Action Group after the sinking of the ARA General Belgrano by the Royal Navy during the Falklands War, and from 2006 he argued that the 7 July 2005 London bombings were not carried out by the men accused of them. UCL withdrew his fellowship in 2008 in response to his views about the Auschwitz concentration camp, which he posted on a Holocaust-denial website.[4][5][6][7]

Education and career edit

Kollerstrom studied Natural Sciences at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge from 1965, specializing in the history and philosophy of science. He obtained his BA in 1968 (promoted to MA in 1973).[a] According to his book Lead on the Brain, he worked from 1971 to 1976 for the Medical Research Council's Air Pollution Research Unit in London,[9][b] and later as a physics and mathematics teacher.[11] Supportive of the view that gardening by the lunar cycle affects plant growth (known as lunar gardening), he worked on a biodynamic farm in the 1970s,[12] and his Gardening and Planting by the Moon (1980) was the first of an annual series.[13] This was followed by Lead on the Brain (1982), with a preface by Paul Ekins,[14] then Astrochemistry: A Study of Metal–Planet Affinities (1984), which examined astrochemistry and plant growth.[15]

In 1990, Kollerstrom was elected a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society,[16] and in 1994 he was awarded a PhD by University College London (UCL) for a thesis entitled The Achievement of Newton's "Theory of the Moon's Motion" of 1702.[17] He was also awarded a Leverhulme scholarship and an honorary post-doctoral research fellowship in UCL's department of science and technology studies.[16] His book Newton's Forgotten Lunar Theory: His Contribution to the Quest for Longitude was published in 2000.[18] He published research that year in Equine Veterinary Journal on lunar phases and horse breeding and in 2003 in BMC Psychiatry on lunar months and human behaviour.[12][19] In 2002 his book on the mathematics of crop circles was published, Crop Circles: The Hidden Form.[20]

In 1999 he received a grant from the Royal Astronomical Society to work on the classification of correspondence related to the discovery of Neptune. He and his co-authors concluded in Scientific American in 2004 that the British had wrongly taken credit for it.[21]

Activism edit

Overview edit

Kollerstrom was active in political campaigns in the UK throughout the 1980s. In 1985 he co-founded the London Nuclear Warfare Tribunal, which sought to question the legality of nuclear weapons.[22] The following year, he became a founding member of the Belgrano Action Group, set up in protest at the sinking of the Argentine ship the ARA General Belgrano by the Royal Navy during the 1982 Falklands War. The group held an informal public inquiry in November 1986 at Hampstead Town Hall, addressed by Tam Dalyell and Clive Ponting, among others.[23] In 1989 Kollerstrom stood as a Green Party candidate for East Guildford in the Surrey County Council election.[24]

In August 2002, in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq War, Kollerstrom became a founding member of the Legal Inquiry Steering Group, a citizens' tribunal in the UK that challenged the legality of the war.[2][25] In 2006 he appeared in a video by David Shayler supporting a fringe conspiracy theory that the men accused of the 7 July 2005 London bombings had not carried out the attack.[6] According to the BBC, Kollerstrom found that the Luton–London train on which the bombers were at first said to have travelled had been cancelled, which led the government to correct the official account of the men's movements.[26] The police said the correction had come from them.[27] Kollerstrom's book Terror on the Tube: Behind the Veil of 7/7, An Investigation was published in 2009, and he was interviewed that year for the BBC series The Conspiracy Files.[28]

Holocaust denial edit

In 2007, on the website of the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust (CODOH), a Holocaust-denial group, Kollerstrom argued for a fringe view that the gas chambers in the Auschwitz concentration camp had been used for disinfection purposes only and that only one million Jews died in the war.[29][1][5] First proposed by the French fascist writer Maurice Bardèche in 1947, this position has no support among historians.[30] In March 2008, a second article of his on the CODOH site alleged that Auschwitz had had art classes, a well-stocked library for inmates, and an elegant swimming pool where inmates would sunbathe on weekends while watching water polo.[31][1] David Aaronovitch called this "one of the most jaw-dropping pieces of insulting stupidity" he had ever seen.[6] UCL removed Kollerstrom's honorary fellowship in April 2008 when the articles were brought to its attention.[4][7]

Responding to the loss of his fellowship, Kollerstrom said he had been accused of "thought crime"; he had no interest, he said, in Nazism and had always belonged to progressive groups such as the Green Party, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, and the Respect Party.[5] The following month he was interviewed by Iran's Press TV, which re-published one of his CODOH articles, which denied the use of gas for killing in Auschwitz.[1][3][32] The historian of science, Noel Swerdlow, suggested in Isis in 2010 that the publishers of the Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers (2007) should withdraw it and replace the entries Kollerstrom had written on John Couch Adams, John Flamsteed, and Isaac Newton; Swerdlow wrote that a "line has been crossed that should never be crossed".[33] In 2014 Kollerstrom's book Breaking the Spell: The Holocaust: Myth & Reality was published by Castle Hill Publishers, Germar Rudolf's Holocaust-denial imprint in Sussex, with a foreword by self-described "Holocaust denier" James H. Fetzer, co-founder of Scholars for 9/11 Truth.[34][35] It was one of several Holocaust-denial books removed from sale by Amazon in 2017.[36]

Later writing and activism edit

Kollerstrom's The Life and Death of Paul McCartney 1942–1966: A Very English Mystery (2015) supported the "Paul is dead" conspiracy theory, namely, that Paul McCartney died in 1966 and was replaced by a look-alike,[37] while his Chronicles of False Flag Terror (2017) suggested that several terrorist attacks in Europe had been false-flag operations.[38] Writing in 2017 about the relationship between conspiracism and historical negationism, Nicholas Terry, a historian at Exeter University, referred to Kollerstrom as a "classic example of so-called crank magnetism".[1]

Together with Ian Fantom, a 9/11 truther, Kollerstrom co-founded Keep Talking, a conspiracy theory discussion group.[39][40] In 2018 six of the group's events were cancelled by the venue Conway Hall when Kollerstrom's involvement was revealed.[41] Kollerstrom has regularly appeared on the David Icke-associated Richie Allen Show, including on Holocaust Memorial Day in 2016. Allen described Kollerstrom's 7/7 conspiracy theory work as "vital".[42] Kollerstrom has also attended meetings of the far-right London Forum.[43]

Selected works edit

Books

  • (1980) with Simon Best. Lunar Planting Manual 1980–81, Marlow: W. Foulsham & Co. Ltd. ISBN 0-572-01059-1
  • (1980) Gardening and Planting by the Moon, Marlow: W Foulsham & Co Ltd (an annual series).
  • (1982) Lead on the Brain: A Plain Guide to Britain's No. 1 Pollutant, London: Wildwood House. ISBN 0-7045-0476-6
  • (1984) Astrochemistry: A Study of Metal–Planet Affinities, London: Emergence Press. ISBN 0-946937-00-1
  • (1988) with George Farebrother (eds.). The Unnecessary War: Proceedings of the Belgrano Inquiry, November 7/8th 1986, The Belgrano Action Group, Spokesman Press.
  • (1993) The Metal-Planet Relationship: A Study of Celestial Influence, Borderland Sciences Research Foundation. ISBN 0-945685-14-9
  • (1994) with Mike O'Neill. The Eureka Effect: Astrology of Scientific Discovery, Oxford: Auriel.
  • (1995) The Achievement of Newton's 'Theory of the Moon's Motion' of 1702, PhD dissertation, University of London.
  • (2000) Newton's Forgotten Lunar Theory: His Contribution to the Quest for Longitude, Santa Fe: Green Lion Press. ISBN 978-1888009088
  • (2002) Crop Circles: The Hidden Form, Salisbury: Wessex Books. ISBN 1-903035-11-2
  • (2003) with George Farebrother (eds.). The Case against War: The Essential Legal Inquiries, Opinions and Judgements Concerning War in Iraq, Legal Inquiry Steering Group, Nottingham: Spokesman Books (available ). ISBN 978-0851246925
  • (2004) with Nicholas Campion (eds.). Galileo's Astrology, Bristol: Culture and Cosmos. ISBN 9781898485094
  • (2008) Venus, the Path of Beauty, Butleigh: Squeeze. ISBN 9781906069025
  • (2009) Terror on the Tube: Behind the Veil of 7/7, An Investigation, San Diego: Progressive Press. ISBN 1-61577-007-0
  • (2013) Farmer's Moon, New Alchemy Press.
  • (2013) Interface: Astronomical Essays for Astrologers, New Alchemy Press.
  • (2013) Eureka: The Celestial Pattern at Times of Historic Inspiration, New Alchemy Press. ISBN 978-0957279902
  • (2014) The Secrets of the Seven Metals: A Bridge Between Heaven and Earth, New Alchemy Press. ISBN 978-0957279926
  • (2014) Breaking the Spell. The Holocaust: Myth & Reality, Uckfield: Castle Hill Publishers.
  • (2015) The Life and Death of Paul McCartney 1942–1966: A Very English Mystery, United States: Moon Rock Books. ISBN 978-1517283131
  • (2016) How Britain Initiated Both World Wars, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.
  • (2017) Chronicles of False Flag Terror, United States: Moon Rock Books.

Articles

  • (1977) with P. W. Lord and W. F. Whimster. "A difference in the composition of bronchial mucus between smokers and non-smokers", Thorax, April, 32(2), pp. 155–159. PMID 867327 PMC 470554
  • (1977) with P. W. Lord and W. F. Whimster. "Distribution of acid mucus in the bronchial mucous glands", Thorax, April, 32(2), pp. 160–162. PMID 867328 PMC 470555
  • (1980) "The Lawther Report: Whitewashing Leaded Petrol" 23 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine, The Ecologist, 10(6/7), July/Aug/Sept, pp. 246–249.
  • (1983) "Planetary Influences on Metal Ion Activity", Correlation, 3(1), pp. 38–50.
  • (1985) "Newton's Lunar Mass Error", Journal of the British Astronomical Association, 95, pp. 151–153.
  • (1987) with George Farebrother (eds.) The Unnecessary War: Proceedings of the Belgrano Inquiry, November 7/8th 1986, The Belgrano Action Group, Nottingham: Spokesman Books.
  • (1988) with Mike O'Neill. "The Eureka Effect: An Initial Report", Parts I and II, The Astrological Journal, Spring and Summer.
  • (1990) "The Edmond Halley 'Bull's Eye' Enigma", Journal of the British Astronomical Association, 100, p. 7.
  • (1991) , Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, 32, p. 51.
  • (1991) "Newton's two 'Moon-tests'", The British Journal for the History of Science, 24(3), September, pp. 369–372. doi:10.1017/S0007087400027424
  • (1992) "Thomas Simpson and 'Newton's method of approximation': An enduring myth", The British Journal for the History of Science, 25(3), September, pp. 347–354. doi:10.1017/S0007087400029150 JSTOR 4027257
  • (1992) with Mike O'Neill. "Invention Moments and Aspects to Uranus", Correlation, 11(2), December, pp. 11–23.
  • (1992) "The Hollow World of Edmond Halley", Journal for the History of Astronomy, 23, pp. 185–192.
  • (1993) "Bio-Dynamic Constellation Division", Science Forum, 9, Spring, pp. 29–32.
  • (1995) with Bernard D. Yallop. "Flamsteed's Lunar Data 1692–95, Sent to Newton", Journal for the History of Astronomy, 26, pp. 237–246.
  • (1996) "'A Reintroduction of Epicycles': Newton's 1702 Lunar Theory and Halley's Saros Correction", Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, 36, pp. 357–368.
  • (1999) "The Path of Halley's Comet, and Newton's Late Apprehension of the Law of Gravity", Annals of Science, 56(4), pp. 331–356. doi:10.1080/000337999296328
  • (2000) "How Newton inspired China's calendar", Astronomy & Geophysics, 41(5), pp. 21–22. doi:10.1046/j.1468-4004.2000.41521.x
  • (2000) with Camilla Power. "The influence of the lunar cycle on fertility on two thoroughbred studfarms", Equine Veterinary Journal, 32(1), January, pp. 75–77. doi:10.2746/042516400777612107 PMID 10661389
  • (2001) with Gerhard Staudenmaier. "Evidence for Lunar-Sidereal Rhythms in Crop Yield: A Review", Journal Biological Agriculture & Horticulture, 19(3), pp. 247–259. doi:10.1080/01448765.2001.9754928
  • (2002) "Newton, Halley and Uranus", Astrological Journal, August.
  • (2003) "Galileo as Believer", Culture and Cosmos, 7(1), Spring/Summer.
  • (2003) with Beverly Steffert. "Sex difference in response to stress by lunar month: A pilot study of four years' crisis-call frequency", BMC Psychiatry, 3(20), 10 December. doi:10.1186/1471-244X-3-20 PMID 14664724 PMC 317316
  • (2003) "Recovering the Neptune files", Astronomy & Geophysics, 44(5), pp. 23–24.
  • (2004) with William Sheehan, Craig B. Waff. "The Case of the Pilfered Planet: Did the British steal Neptune?", Scientific American, 291(6), December, pp. 92–99. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1204-92 PMID 15597985
  • (2004) "Galileo's first trial", Astronomy Now, 18(7), pp. 33–36.
  • (2004) "Galileo and the new star", Astronomy Now, 18(10), pp. 58–59.
  • (2004) "Lunar Effect on Thoroughbred Mare Fertility: An Analysis of 14 Years of Data, 1986–1999", Biological Rhythm Research, 35(4), pp. 317–327. doi:10.1080/0929-1010400000624
  • (2004) , Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, IAUC196, pp. 34–40. doi:10.1017/S1743921305001249 Also in D. W. Kurtz (ed.), Transits of Venus: New Views of the Solar System and Galaxy, Cambridge University Press, 2005, p. 34ff.
  • (2005) , International Journal of Metrology, Oct/Nov/Dec.
  • (2006) "John Herschel on the Discovery of Neptune", Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, 9(2), pp. 151–158.
  • (2006) "An Hiatus in History: The British Claim for Neptune's Co-prediction, 1845–1846: Part 1", History of Science, 44, pp. 1–28.
  • (2006) "An Hiatus in History: The British Claim for Neptune's Co-prediction, 1845–1846: Part 2", History of Science, 44(3), pp. 349–371.
  • (2007) "Decoding the Antikythera Mechanism", Astronomy Now, 21(3), pp. 32–35.
  • (2007) "Adams, John Couch", "Flamsteed, John", and "Newton, Isaac", in Thomas Hockey et al. (eds.), Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, Springer, pp. 12–13, 373–374, 830–832.
  • (2009) "The naming of Neptune" 20 August 2018 at the Wayback Machine, Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, 12(1), pp. 66–71.

Notes edit

  1. ^ Cambridge University Reporter: Kollerstrom matriculated in Michaelmas Term 1965 at Corpus Christi College. He was awarded a BA on 21 June 1968 and an MA on 20 October 1973.[8] (At Cambridge a BA may become an MA without examination at least six years from the end of the first term of residence and two years after graduation.)
  2. ^ "We thank Nick Kollerstrom for making many of the measurements and also Professor P. J. Lawther, formerly Director of the Medical Research Council's Air Pollution Unit at St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, where this work was largely done ..."[10]

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d e Nicholas Terry (2017). "Holocaust denial in the age of web 2.0: negationist discourse since the Irving–Lipstadt trial", in Paul Behrens, Olaf Jensen, and Nicholas Terry (eds.), Holocaust and Genocide Denial: A Contextual Perspective, Abingdon: Routledge (pp. 34–54), pp. 48–49.
  2. ^ a b Jonathan Ames; Frances Gibb (8 February 2017). "Disgraced lawyer was connected to Holocaust denier". The Sunday Times.
  3. ^ a b Graham Macklin (2015). "The 'cultic milieu' of Britain's 'New Right': meta-political 'fascism' in contemporary Britain", in Nigel Copsey and John E. Richardson (eds.), Cultures of Post-War British Fascism, Abingdon: Routledge (pp. 177–201), p. 190.
  4. ^ a b "Dr Nicholas Kollerstrom", UCL News, 22 April 2008.
  5. ^ a b c Daniella Peled (24 April 2008). , The Jewish Chronicle.
  6. ^ a b c Aaronovitch, David (1 May 2008). . The Jewish Chronicle. Archived from the original on 21 March 2012. Also see David Aaronovitch (2011). Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History, London: Riverhead Books, p. 12.
  7. ^ a b Nick Cohen (4 May 2008). "When academics lose their power of reason", The Observer.
  8. ^ Cambridge University Reporter, Class Lists.
  9. ^ Nick Kollerstrom (1982). Lead on the Brain: A Plain Guide to Britain's No. 1 Pollutant, London: Wildwood House, back cover.
  10. ^ Whimster, W. F.; Lord, P.; Biles, B. (1984). "Tracheobronchial gland profiles in four segmental airways". The American Review of Respiratory Disease. 129 (6): 985–8. doi:10.1164/arrd.1984.129.6.985 (inactive 31 January 2024). PMID 6732055.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of January 2024 (link)
  11. ^ For physics teacher, Lead on the Brain, back cover, and , Foulsham Publishing. Retrieved 26 November 2009.

    For mathematics teacher, Nick Kollerstrom (2002). Crop Circles: The Hidden Form, Salisbury: Wessex Books, back cover.

  12. ^ a b Elspeth Thompson (31 February 2000). "Urban Gardener", The Sunday Telegraph magazine.
  13. ^ Nicholas Kollerstrom (1980). Gardening and Planting by the Moon, W. Foulsham & Co. Ltd., annual series from 1980 to the present.
    Ken Thompson (31 January 2012). "Moon planting: just a passing phase", The Daily Telegraph.

    John Manley (1 April 2017). "The Casual Gardener: Biodynamics – planting by the light of the moon", The Irish News.

  14. ^ Mick Duggan (3 February 1983). "Is it safe to breathe?", New Scientist.
  15. ^ Egil Asprem (2014). The Problem of Disenchantment: Scientific Naturalism and Esoteric Discourse 1900–1939, Boston: Brill Publishers, p. 490, n. 29.

    For a summary of a 1983 article by Kollerstrom on astrochemistry, see John T. Burns (1997). Cosmic Influences on Humans, Animals, and Plants: An Annotated Bibliography, Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press, p. 120.

  16. ^ a b . Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London. January 1998. Archived from the original on 12 November 1999.

    . Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London. January 1999. Archived from the original on 17 November 1999.

  17. ^ "The Achievement of Newton's 'Theory of the Moon's Motion' of 1702", eThOS.
  18. ^ Kurt Smith (September 2005). "Newton's Forgotten Lunar Theory: His Contribution to the Quest for Longitude, by Nicholas Kollerstrom", Isis, 96(3), pp. 437–438. JSTOR 10.1086/498778
  19. ^ N. Kollerstrom and Camilla Power (January 2000). "The influence of the lunar cycle on fertility on two thoroughbred studfarms", Equine Veterinary Journal, 32(1), pp. 75–77. doi:10.2746/042516400777612107 PMID 10661389

    Nicholas Kollerstrom and Beverly Steffert (10 December 2003). "Sex difference in response to stress by lunar month: A pilot study of four years' crisis-call frequency", BMC Psychiatry, 3(20). doi:10.1186/1471-244X-3-20 PMID 14664724

  20. ^ Julie Gibbon (2013). "Crop Circles: The Hidden Form". Association of Teachers of Mathematics. Archived from the original on 2 September 2013.
  21. ^ William Sheehan, Nicholas Kollerstrom, and Craig B. Waff (22 November 2004). , Scientific American, 291(6), pp. 92–99. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1204-92 PMID 15597985
    Christine McGourty (10 April 2003). "Lost letters' Neptune revelations", BBC News.
    Robin McKie (12 December 2004). "Revealed: how Britain put the spin on Neptune", The Observer.

    Mario Livio (7 August 2013). "Who Predicted the Existence of the Planet Neptune?", The Huffington Post.

  22. ^ Geoffrey Darnton (ed.) (1989). The Bomb and the Law, The Alva and Gunnar Myrdal Foundation, Stockholm; "Convenors", London Nuclear Warfare Tribunal.
  23. ^ New Statesman, 112, 1986, p. 43; Nicholas Kollerstrom and George Farebrother (eds.) (22 October 1987). The Unnecessary War: Proceedings of the Belgrano Inquiry, November 7/8th 1986, The Belgrano Action Group, Nottingham: Spokesman Books.
  24. ^ Election results, Surrey Advertiser, 12 May 1989.
  25. ^ "Legal Inquiry Steering Group". war.inquiry.freeuk.com. Archived from the original on 27 August 2017.

    George Farebrother and Nicholas Kollerstrom (eds.) (2003). The Case against War: The Essential Legal Inquiries, Opinions and Judgements Concerning War in Iraq, The Legal Inquiry Steering Group, Nottingham: Spokesman Books, pp. 5–6, 268, 283. ISBN 0851246923 Available .

  26. ^ The Conspiracy Files: 7/7, BBC Two, 30 June 2009, from 00:17:00; John Reid (Home Secretary), Hansard, 11 July 2006: Column 1307.
  27. ^ "Reid reveals 7 July account error", BBC News, 11 July 2006.
  28. ^ Robert Mendick and Jonny Paul (10 June 2008). , London Evening Standard.

    Nicole Martin (10 June 2008). "BBC pays disgraced academic expenses for part in 7/7 bombings documentary". The Daily Telegraph.

  29. ^ Nick Kollerstrom (2007). . Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust. Archived from the original on 24 June 2007.
  30. ^ Deborah E. Lipstadt (1993). Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, Plume, p. 50 for Bardèche, p. 225ff for the disinfection claim.

    Michael Gray (2015). Teaching the Holocaust, Routledge, p. 106.

  31. ^ Nick Kollerstrom (March 2008). (PDF). Smith's Report on the Holocaust Controversy. Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust. pp. 3–4. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2009.
  32. ^ Martin Bright (20 May 2008). "Why do we tolerate Press TV?", New Statesman.
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  37. ^ Nick Kollerstrom (2015).The Life and Death of Paul McCartney 1942–1966: A Very English Mystery, Moon Rock Books.
  38. ^ Nick Kollerstrom (2017). Chronicles of False Flag Terror, Moon Rock Books.
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nicholas, kollerstrom, born, 1946, english, historian, science, author, known, promotion, holocaust, denial, other, conspiracy, theories, formerly, honorary, research, fellow, department, science, technology, studies, university, college, london, author, sever. Nicholas Kollerstrom born 1946 is an English historian of science and author who is known for the promotion of Holocaust denial and other conspiracy theories 2 3 Formerly an honorary research fellow in The Department for Science and Technology Studies STS at University College London UCL he is the author of several books including Gardening and Planting by the Moon an annual series beginning in 1980 Newton s Forgotten Lunar Theory 2000 Crop Circles 2002 and Terror on the Tube 2009 He has also written entries for the Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers Nicholas KollerstromBorn1946 age 77 78 EducationBA 1968 Natural Sciences Corpus Christi College Cambridge PhD 1995 history of science University College London OccupationWriterKnown forHistory of science lunar gardening conspiracism historical negationism 1 Websitehttps terroronthetube co uk Kollerstrom has been involved in a variety of issues as a political activist In 1986 he co founded the Belgrano Action Group after the sinking of the ARA General Belgrano by the Royal Navy during the Falklands War and from 2006 he argued that the 7 July 2005 London bombings were not carried out by the men accused of them UCL withdrew his fellowship in 2008 in response to his views about the Auschwitz concentration camp which he posted on a Holocaust denial website 4 5 6 7 Contents 1 Education and career 2 Activism 2 1 Overview 2 2 Holocaust denial 2 3 Later writing and activism 3 Selected works 4 Notes 5 ReferencesEducation and career editKollerstrom studied Natural Sciences at Corpus Christi College Cambridge from 1965 specializing in the history and philosophy of science He obtained his BA in 1968 promoted to MA in 1973 a According to his book Lead on the Brain he worked from 1971 to 1976 for the Medical Research Council s Air Pollution Research Unit in London 9 b and later as a physics and mathematics teacher 11 Supportive of the view that gardening by the lunar cycle affects plant growth known as lunar gardening he worked on a biodynamic farm in the 1970s 12 and his Gardening and Planting by the Moon 1980 was the first of an annual series 13 This was followed by Lead on the Brain 1982 with a preface by Paul Ekins 14 then Astrochemistry A Study of Metal Planet Affinities 1984 which examined astrochemistry and plant growth 15 In 1990 Kollerstrom was elected a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society 16 and in 1994 he was awarded a PhD by University College London UCL for a thesis entitled The Achievement of Newton s Theory of the Moon s Motion of 1702 17 He was also awarded a Leverhulme scholarship and an honorary post doctoral research fellowship in UCL s department of science and technology studies 16 His book Newton s Forgotten Lunar Theory His Contribution to the Quest for Longitude was published in 2000 18 He published research that year in Equine Veterinary Journal on lunar phases and horse breeding and in 2003 in BMC Psychiatry on lunar months and human behaviour 12 19 In 2002 his book on the mathematics of crop circles was published Crop Circles The Hidden Form 20 In 1999 he received a grant from the Royal Astronomical Society to work on the classification of correspondence related to the discovery of Neptune He and his co authors concluded in Scientific American in 2004 that the British had wrongly taken credit for it 21 Activism editOverview edit Kollerstrom was active in political campaigns in the UK throughout the 1980s In 1985 he co founded the London Nuclear Warfare Tribunal which sought to question the legality of nuclear weapons 22 The following year he became a founding member of the Belgrano Action Group set up in protest at the sinking of the Argentine ship the ARA General Belgrano by the Royal Navy during the 1982 Falklands War The group held an informal public inquiry in November 1986 at Hampstead Town Hall addressed by Tam Dalyell and Clive Ponting among others 23 In 1989 Kollerstrom stood as a Green Party candidate for East Guildford in the Surrey County Council election 24 In August 2002 in the run up to the 2003 Iraq War Kollerstrom became a founding member of the Legal Inquiry Steering Group a citizens tribunal in the UK that challenged the legality of the war 2 25 In 2006 he appeared in a video by David Shayler supporting a fringe conspiracy theory that the men accused of the 7 July 2005 London bombings had not carried out the attack 6 According to the BBC Kollerstrom found that the Luton London train on which the bombers were at first said to have travelled had been cancelled which led the government to correct the official account of the men s movements 26 The police said the correction had come from them 27 Kollerstrom s book Terror on the Tube Behind the Veil of 7 7 An Investigation was published in 2009 and he was interviewed that year for the BBC series The Conspiracy Files 28 Holocaust denial edit Further information Holocaust denial and Evidence and documentation for the Holocaust In 2007 on the website of the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust CODOH a Holocaust denial group Kollerstrom argued for a fringe view that the gas chambers in the Auschwitz concentration camp had been used for disinfection purposes only and that only one million Jews died in the war 29 1 5 First proposed by the French fascist writer Maurice Bardeche in 1947 this position has no support among historians 30 In March 2008 a second article of his on the CODOH site alleged that Auschwitz had had art classes a well stocked library for inmates and an elegant swimming pool where inmates would sunbathe on weekends while watching water polo 31 1 David Aaronovitch called this one of the most jaw dropping pieces of insulting stupidity he had ever seen 6 UCL removed Kollerstrom s honorary fellowship in April 2008 when the articles were brought to its attention 4 7 Responding to the loss of his fellowship Kollerstrom said he had been accused of thought crime he had no interest he said in Nazism and had always belonged to progressive groups such as the Green Party Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the Respect Party 5 The following month he was interviewed by Iran s Press TV which re published one of his CODOH articles which denied the use of gas for killing in Auschwitz 1 3 32 The historian of science Noel Swerdlow suggested in Isis in 2010 that the publishers of the Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers 2007 should withdraw it and replace the entries Kollerstrom had written on John Couch Adams John Flamsteed and Isaac Newton Swerdlow wrote that a line has been crossed that should never be crossed 33 In 2014 Kollerstrom s book Breaking the Spell The Holocaust Myth amp Reality was published by Castle Hill Publishers Germar Rudolf s Holocaust denial imprint in Sussex with a foreword by self described Holocaust denier James H Fetzer co founder of Scholars for 9 11 Truth 34 35 It was one of several Holocaust denial books removed from sale by Amazon in 2017 36 Later writing and activism edit Kollerstrom s The Life and Death of Paul McCartney 1942 1966 A Very English Mystery 2015 supported the Paul is dead conspiracy theory namely that Paul McCartney died in 1966 and was replaced by a look alike 37 while his Chronicles of False Flag Terror 2017 suggested that several terrorist attacks in Europe had been false flag operations 38 Writing in 2017 about the relationship between conspiracism and historical negationism Nicholas Terry a historian at Exeter University referred to Kollerstrom as a classic example of so called crank magnetism 1 Together with Ian Fantom a 9 11 truther Kollerstrom co founded Keep Talking a conspiracy theory discussion group 39 40 In 2018 six of the group s events were cancelled by the venue Conway Hall when Kollerstrom s involvement was revealed 41 Kollerstrom has regularly appeared on the David Icke associated Richie Allen Show including on Holocaust Memorial Day in 2016 Allen described Kollerstrom s 7 7 conspiracy theory work as vital 42 Kollerstrom has also attended meetings of the far right London Forum 43 Selected works editBooks 1980 with Simon Best Lunar Planting Manual 1980 81 Marlow W Foulsham amp Co Ltd ISBN 0 572 01059 1 1980 Gardening and Planting by the Moon Marlow W Foulsham amp Co Ltd an annual series 1982 Lead on the Brain A Plain Guide to Britain s No 1 Pollutant London Wildwood House ISBN 0 7045 0476 6 1984 Astrochemistry A Study of Metal Planet Affinities London Emergence Press ISBN 0 946937 00 1 1988 with George Farebrother eds The Unnecessary War Proceedings of the Belgrano Inquiry November 7 8th 1986 The Belgrano Action Group Spokesman Press 1993 The Metal Planet Relationship A Study of Celestial Influence Borderland Sciences Research Foundation ISBN 0 945685 14 9 1994 with Mike O Neill The Eureka Effect Astrology of Scientific Discovery Oxford Auriel 1995 The Achievement of Newton s Theory of the Moon s Motion of 1702 PhD dissertation University of London 2000 Newton s Forgotten Lunar Theory His Contribution to the Quest for Longitude Santa Fe Green Lion Press ISBN 978 1888009088 2002 Crop Circles The Hidden Form Salisbury Wessex Books ISBN 1 903035 11 2 2003 with George Farebrother eds The Case against War The Essential Legal Inquiries Opinions and Judgements Concerning War in Iraq Legal Inquiry Steering Group Nottingham Spokesman Books available here ISBN 978 0851246925 2004 with Nicholas Campion eds Galileo s Astrology Bristol Culture and Cosmos ISBN 9781898485094 2008 Venus the Path of Beauty Butleigh Squeeze ISBN 9781906069025 2009 Terror on the Tube Behind the Veil of 7 7 An Investigation San Diego Progressive Press ISBN 1 61577 007 0 2013 Farmer s Moon New Alchemy Press 2013 Interface Astronomical Essays for Astrologers New Alchemy Press 2013 Eureka The Celestial Pattern at Times of Historic Inspiration New Alchemy Press ISBN 978 0957279902 2014 The Secrets of the Seven Metals A Bridge Between Heaven and Earth New Alchemy Press ISBN 978 0957279926 2014 Breaking the Spell The Holocaust Myth amp Reality Uckfield Castle Hill Publishers 2015 The Life and Death of Paul McCartney 1942 1966 A Very English Mystery United States Moon Rock Books ISBN 978 1517283131 2016 How Britain Initiated Both World Wars CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2017 Chronicles of False Flag Terror United States Moon Rock Books Articles 1977 with P W Lord and W F Whimster A difference in the composition of bronchial mucus between smokers and non smokers Thorax April 32 2 pp 155 159 PMID 867327 PMC 470554 1977 with P W Lord and W F Whimster Distribution of acid mucus in the bronchial mucous glands Thorax April 32 2 pp 160 162 PMID 867328 PMC 470555 1980 The Lawther Report Whitewashing Leaded Petrol Archived 23 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine The Ecologist 10 6 7 July Aug Sept pp 246 249 1983 Planetary Influences on Metal Ion Activity Correlation 3 1 pp 38 50 1985 Newton s Lunar Mass Error Journal of the British Astronomical Association 95 pp 151 153 1987 with George Farebrother eds The Unnecessary War Proceedings of the Belgrano Inquiry November 7 8th 1986 The Belgrano Action Group Nottingham Spokesman Books 1988 with Mike O Neill The Eureka Effect An Initial Report Parts I and II The Astrological Journal Spring and Summer 1990 The Edmond Halley Bull s Eye Enigma Journal of the British Astronomical Association 100 p 7 1991 Crabtree s Venus Transit Measurement Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society 32 p 51 1991 Newton s two Moon tests The British Journal for the History of Science 24 3 September pp 369 372 doi 10 1017 S0007087400027424 1992 Thomas Simpson and Newton s method of approximation An enduring myth The British Journal for the History of Science 25 3 September pp 347 354 doi 10 1017 S0007087400029150 JSTOR 4027257 1992 with Mike O Neill Invention Moments and Aspects to Uranus Correlation 11 2 December pp 11 23 1992 The Hollow World of Edmond Halley Journal for the History of Astronomy 23 pp 185 192 1993 Bio Dynamic Constellation Division Science Forum 9 Spring pp 29 32 1995 with Bernard D Yallop Flamsteed s Lunar Data 1692 95 Sent to Newton Journal for the History of Astronomy 26 pp 237 246 1996 A Reintroduction of Epicycles Newton s 1702 Lunar Theory and Halley s Saros Correction Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society 36 pp 357 368 1999 The Path of Halley s Comet and Newton s Late Apprehension of the Law of Gravity Annals of Science 56 4 pp 331 356 doi 10 1080 000337999296328 2000 How Newton inspired China s calendar Astronomy amp Geophysics 41 5 pp 21 22 doi 10 1046 j 1468 4004 2000 41521 x 2000 with Camilla Power The influence of the lunar cycle on fertility on two thoroughbred studfarms Equine Veterinary Journal 32 1 January pp 75 77 doi 10 2746 042516400777612107 PMID 10661389 2001 with Gerhard Staudenmaier Evidence for Lunar Sidereal Rhythms in Crop Yield A Review Journal Biological Agriculture amp Horticulture 19 3 pp 247 259 doi 10 1080 01448765 2001 9754928 2002 Newton Halley and Uranus Astrological Journal August 2003 Galileo as Believer Culture and Cosmos 7 1 Spring Summer 2003 with Beverly Steffert Sex difference in response to stress by lunar month A pilot study of four years crisis call frequency BMC Psychiatry 3 20 10 December doi 10 1186 1471 244X 3 20 PMID 14664724 PMC 317316 2003 Recovering the Neptune files Astronomy amp Geophysics 44 5 pp 23 24 2004 with William Sheehan Craig B Waff The Case of the Pilfered Planet Did the British steal Neptune Scientific American 291 6 December pp 92 99 doi 10 1038 scientificamerican1204 92 PMID 15597985 2004 Galileo s first trial Astronomy Now 18 7 pp 33 36 2004 Galileo and the new star Astronomy Now 18 10 pp 58 59 2004 Lunar Effect on Thoroughbred Mare Fertility An Analysis of 14 Years of Data 1986 1999 Biological Rhythm Research 35 4 pp 317 327 doi 10 1080 0929 1010400000624 2004 William Crabtree s Venus transit observation Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union IAUC196 pp 34 40 doi 10 1017 S1743921305001249 Also in D W Kurtz ed Transits of Venus New Views of the Solar System and Galaxy Cambridge University Press 2005 p 34ff 2005 Acropolis Width and Ancient Geodesy International Journal of Metrology Oct Nov Dec 2006 John Herschel on the Discovery of Neptune Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage 9 2 pp 151 158 2006 An Hiatus in History The British Claim for Neptune s Co prediction 1845 1846 Part 1 History of Science 44 pp 1 28 2006 An Hiatus in History The British Claim for Neptune s Co prediction 1845 1846 Part 2 History of Science 44 3 pp 349 371 2007 Decoding the Antikythera Mechanism Astronomy Now 21 3 pp 32 35 2007 Adams John Couch Flamsteed John and Newton Isaac in Thomas Hockey et al eds Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers Springer pp 12 13 373 374 830 832 2009 The naming of Neptune Archived 20 August 2018 at the Wayback Machine Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage 12 1 pp 66 71 Notes edit Cambridge University Reporter Kollerstrom matriculated in Michaelmas Term 1965 at Corpus Christi College He was awarded a BA on 21 June 1968 and an MA on 20 October 1973 8 At Cambridge a BA may become an MA without examination at least six years from the end of the first term of residence and two years after graduation We thank Nick Kollerstrom for making many of the measurements and also Professor P J Lawther formerly Director of the Medical Research Council s Air Pollution Unit at St Bartholomew s Hospital Medical College where this work was largely done 10 References edit a b c d e Nicholas Terry 2017 Holocaust denial in the age of web 2 0 negationist discourse since the Irving Lipstadt trial in Paul Behrens Olaf Jensen and Nicholas Terry eds Holocaust and Genocide Denial A Contextual Perspective Abingdon Routledge pp 34 54 pp 48 49 a b Jonathan Ames Frances Gibb 8 February 2017 Disgraced lawyer was connected to Holocaust denier The Sunday Times a b Graham Macklin 2015 The cultic milieu of Britain s New Right meta political fascism in contemporary Britain in Nigel Copsey and John E Richardson eds Cultures of Post War British Fascism Abingdon Routledge pp 177 201 p 190 a b Dr Nicholas Kollerstrom UCL News 22 April 2008 a b c Daniella Peled 24 April 2008 College rejects Shoah denier The Jewish Chronicle a b c Aaronovitch David 1 May 2008 Red and green meet brownshirts The Jewish Chronicle Archived from the original on 21 March 2012 Also see David Aaronovitch 2011 Voodoo Histories The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History London Riverhead Books p 12 a b Nick Cohen 4 May 2008 When academics lose their power of reason The Observer Cambridge University Reporter Class Lists Nick Kollerstrom 1982 Lead on the Brain A Plain Guide to Britain s No 1 Pollutant London Wildwood House back cover Whimster W F Lord P Biles B 1984 Tracheobronchial gland profiles in four segmental airways The American Review of Respiratory Disease 129 6 985 8 doi 10 1164 arrd 1984 129 6 985 inactive 31 January 2024 PMID 6732055 a href Template Cite journal html title Template Cite journal cite journal a CS1 maint DOI inactive as of January 2024 link For physics teacher Lead on the Brain back cover and Nick Kollerstrom Foulsham Publishing Retrieved 26 November 2009 For mathematics teacher Nick Kollerstrom 2002 Crop Circles The Hidden Form Salisbury Wessex Books back cover a b Elspeth Thompson 31 February 2000 Urban Gardener The Sunday Telegraph magazine Nicholas Kollerstrom 1980 Gardening and Planting by the Moon W Foulsham amp Co Ltd annual series from 1980 to the present Ken Thompson 31 January 2012 Moon planting just a passing phase The Daily Telegraph John Manley 1 April 2017 The Casual Gardener Biodynamics planting by the light of the moon The Irish News Mick Duggan 3 February 1983 Is it safe to breathe New Scientist Egil Asprem 2014 The Problem of Disenchantment Scientific Naturalism and Esoteric Discourse 1900 1939 Boston Brill Publishers p 490 n 29 For a summary of a 1983 article by Kollerstrom on astrochemistry see John T Burns 1997 Cosmic Influences on Humans Animals and Plants An Annotated Bibliography Lanham Md Scarecrow Press p 120 a b Nicholas Kollerstrom Department of Science and Technology Studies University College London January 1998 Archived from the original on 12 November 1999 Staff Department of Science and Technology Studies University College London January 1999 Archived from the original on 17 November 1999 The Achievement of Newton s Theory of the Moon s Motion of 1702 eThOS Kurt Smith September 2005 Newton s Forgotten Lunar Theory His Contribution to the Quest for Longitude by Nicholas Kollerstrom Isis 96 3 pp 437 438 JSTOR 10 1086 498778 N Kollerstrom and Camilla Power January 2000 The influence of the lunar cycle on fertility on two thoroughbred studfarms Equine Veterinary Journal 32 1 pp 75 77 doi 10 2746 042516400777612107 PMID 10661389 Nicholas Kollerstrom and Beverly Steffert 10 December 2003 Sex difference in response to stress by lunar month A pilot study of four years crisis call frequency BMC Psychiatry 3 20 doi 10 1186 1471 244X 3 20 PMID 14664724 Julie Gibbon 2013 Crop Circles The Hidden Form Association of Teachers of Mathematics Archived from the original on 2 September 2013 William Sheehan Nicholas Kollerstrom and Craig B Waff 22 November 2004 The Case of the Pilfered Planet Scientific American 291 6 pp 92 99 doi 10 1038 scientificamerican1204 92 PMID 15597985 Christine McGourty 10 April 2003 Lost letters Neptune revelations BBC News Robin McKie 12 December 2004 Revealed how Britain put the spin on Neptune The Observer Mario Livio 7 August 2013 Who Predicted the Existence of the Planet Neptune The Huffington Post Geoffrey Darnton ed 1989 The Bomb and the Law The Alva and Gunnar Myrdal Foundation Stockholm Convenors London Nuclear Warfare Tribunal New Statesman 112 1986 p 43 Nicholas Kollerstrom and George Farebrother eds 22 October 1987 The Unnecessary War Proceedings of the Belgrano Inquiry November 7 8th 1986 The Belgrano Action Group Nottingham Spokesman Books Election results Surrey Advertiser 12 May 1989 Legal Inquiry Steering Group war inquiry freeuk com Archived from the original on 27 August 2017 George Farebrother and Nicholas Kollerstrom eds 2003 The Case against War The Essential Legal Inquiries Opinions and Judgements Concerning War in Iraq The Legal Inquiry Steering Group Nottingham Spokesman Books pp 5 6 268 283 ISBN 0851246923 Available here The Conspiracy Files 7 7 BBC Two 30 June 2009 from 00 17 00 John Reid Home Secretary Hansard 11 July 2006 Column 1307 Reid reveals 7 July account error BBC News 11 July 2006 Robert Mendick and Jonny Paul 10 June 2008 7 7 was an MI5 plot Holocaust denier claims in BBC film London Evening Standard Nicole Martin 10 June 2008 BBC pays disgraced academic expenses for part in 7 7 bombings documentary The Daily Telegraph Nick Kollerstrom 2007 The Auschwitz Gas Chamber Illusion Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust Archived from the original on 24 June 2007 Deborah E Lipstadt 1993 Denying the Holocaust The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory Plume p 50 for Bardeche p 225ff for the disinfection claim Michael Gray 2015 Teaching the Holocaust Routledge p 106 Nick Kollerstrom March 2008 School Trips to Auschwitz PDF Smith s Report on the Holocaust Controversy Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust pp 3 4 Archived from the original PDF on 24 January 2009 Martin Bright 20 May 2008 Why do we tolerate Press TV New Statesman N M Swerdlow March 2010 Review The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers by Thomas Hockey Isis 101 1 pp 197 198 JSTOR 10 1086 653858 Oliver Kamm 11 December 2014 Respectable revisionists The Jewish Chronicle For Castle Hill also see Stephen E Atkins 2009 Holocaust Denial as an International Movement ABC CLIO p 113 Covid sceptic Sir Desmond Swayne in new storm for being on anti Semitic internet talk show inews co uk 28 January 2021 Retrieved 29 January 2021 Stephanie Courouble 9 March 2017 Why Does Amazon Sell Holocaust Denying Authors Next To Real Historians The Huffington Post Nick Kollerstrom 2015 The Life and Death of Paul McCartney 1942 1966 A Very English Mystery Moon Rock Books Nick Kollerstrom 2017 Chronicles of False Flag Terror Moon Rock Books Mark Townsend 22 February 2020 UK left activists attended events with far right antisemites The Observer Dave Rich and Joe Mulhall Inside Keep Talking PDF CST Hope not Hate and Community Security Trust Archived PDF from the original on 10 March 2020 Brigit Grant 11 November 2020 Six events with a Holocaust denier pulled after pressure from anti racism group Jewish News Lee Harpin 16 April 2019 Emails reveal row within Labour Against The Witchhunt over member s support for Holocaust denier Jewish Chronicle Exposed Brexit Party MEPs on antisemitic conspiracy show Hope not Hate Retrieved 22 August 2019 Ben Welch 18 August 2019 Brexit Party figures appeared on show which promoted Holocaust denial Jewish Chronicle Brigit Grant 11 November 2020 Report London conspiracy 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