Of course they're not willing to admit it. What those e-mails say to me is that they are hopelessly deluded. Or worse than that: they desperately *want* their theories to be true--so badly that they are willing to falsify data, withhold it from other scientists, or even destroy it in order to keep it out of what they so pathetically call "the wrong hands." Such conduct "warrants excommunication from the community of scientists," as Yale College routinely and sternly said to their entering students in 1976, the year of my own matriculation at Yale.