Nicholas Kollerstrom (born 1946) is an English

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and author who is known for the promotion of

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and other

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. Formerly an honorary research fellow in The Department for Science and Technology Studies (STS) at

University College London , mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £143 million (2020) , budget = ...

(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''. 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 ''

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'' by the

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during the Falklands War, and from 2006 he argued that the

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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."Dr Nicholas Kollerstrom"
''UCL News'', 22 April 2008.Daniella Peled (24 April 2008)
"College rejects Shoah denier"
''The Jewish Chronicle''.

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(4 May 2008)
"When academics lose their power of reason"
''The Observer''.

Education and career

Kollerstrom studied

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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). 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, and later as a physics and mathematics teacher. Supportive of the view that gardening by the

lunar cycle Concerning the lunar month of ~29.53 days as viewed from Earth, the lunar phase or Moon phase is the shape of the Moon's directly sunlit portion, which can be expressed quantitatively using areas or angles, or described qualitatively using the t ...

affects

plant growth Important structures in plant development are buds, shoots, roots, leaves, and flowers; plants produce these tissues and structures throughout their life from meristems located at the tips of organs, or between mature tissues. Thus, a living plant a ...

(known as lunar gardening), he worked on a biodynamic farm in the 1970s,

Elspeth Thompson Elspeth Thompson (26 June 1961 – 25 March 2010) was a British author and journalist. She studied History and History of Art at Trinity College, Cambridge. She was the author of many books including ''A Tale of Two Gardens'' (2003), ''The London ...

(31 February 2000). "Urban Gardener", ''The Sunday Telegraph'' magazine. and his ''Gardening and Planting by the Moon'' (1980) was the first of an annual series.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''. This was followed by ''Lead on the Brain'' (1982), with a preface by

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, then ''Astrochemistry: A Study of Metal–Planet Affinities'' (1984), which examined

astrochemistry Astrochemistry is the study of the abundance and reactions of molecules in the Universe, and their interaction with radiation. The discipline is an overlap of astronomy and chemistry. The word "astrochemistry" may be applied to both the Solar Syst ...

and plant growth. In 1990, Kollerstrom was elected a

Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (Whatever shines should be observed) , predecessor = , successor = , formation = , founder = , extinction = , merger = , merged = , type = NGO ...

, and in 1994 he was awarded a PhD by

University College London , mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £143 million (2020) , budget = ...

(UCL) for a thesis entitled ''The Achievement of Newton's "Theory of the Moon's Motion" of 1702''. He was also awarded a Leverhulme scholarship and an honorary post-doctoral research fellowship in UCL's department of science and technology studies. His book ''Newton's Forgotten Lunar Theory: His Contribution to the Quest for Longitude'' was published in 2000. He published research that year in ''Equine Veterinary Journal'' on lunar phases and horse breeding and in 2003 in ''BMC Psychiatry'' on

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s and human behaviour. In 2002 his book on the mathematics of crop circles was published, ''Crop Circles: The Hidden Form''. In 1999 he received a grant from the

Royal Astronomical Society (Whatever shines should be observed) , predecessor = , successor = , formation = , founder = , extinction = , merger = , merged = , type = NG ...

to work on the classification of correspondence related to the

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. He and his co-authors concluded in ''Scientific American'' in 2004 that the British had wrongly taken credit for it.

Activism

Overview

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. 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 ''

'' 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

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and

Clive Ponting Clive Sheridan Ponting (13 April 1946 – 28 July 2020)Richard Norton-Taylor, "The Ponting Affair", Cecil Woolf, London, 1985, p. 14. was a senior British civil servant and historian. He was best known for leaking documents about the sinkin ...

, among others. In 1989 Kollerstrom stood as a

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candidate for East Guildford in the Surrey County Council election. In August 2002, in the run-up to the 2003

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, Kollerstrom became a founding member of the Legal Inquiry Steering Group, a citizens' tribunal in the UK that challenged the legality of the war. In 2006 he appeared in a video by

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supporting a fringe conspiracy theory that the men accused of the

had not carried out the attack. Also see David Aaronovitch (2011). ''Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History'', London: Riverhead Books, p. 12. 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. The police said the correction had come from them. 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 ''

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''.

Holocaust denial

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

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s in the Auschwitz concentration camp had been used for disinfection purposes only and that only one million Jews died in the war. First proposed by the French fascist writer

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in 1947, this position has no support among historians. 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.

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called this "one of the most jaw-dropping pieces of insulting stupidity" he had ever seen. UCL removed Kollerstrom's honorary fellowship in April 2008 when the articles were brought to its attention. 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

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, and the

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. The following month he was interviewed by Iran's

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, which re-published one of his CODOH articles, which denied the use of gas for killing in Auschwitz.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. The historian of science, Noel Swerdlow, suggested in ''

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'' in 2010 that the publishers of the '' Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers'' (2007) should withdraw it and replace the entries Kollerstrom had written on

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, and

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; Swerdlow wrote that a "line has been crossed that should never be crossed". In 2014 Kollerstrom's book ''Breaking the Spell: The Holocaust: Myth & Reality'' was published by Castle Hill Publishers,

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's Holocaust-denial imprint in Sussex, with a foreword by self-described “Holocaust denier”

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, co-founder of Scholars for 9/11 Truth.

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(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.&nbs
113
It was one of several Holocaust-denial books removed from sale by Amazon in 2017.

Later writing and activism

Kollerstrom's ''The Life and Death of Paul McCartney 1942–1966: A Very English Mystery'' (2015) supported the "

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" conspiracy theory, namely, that

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died in 1966 and was replaced by a look-alike, while his ''Chronicles of False Flag Terror'' (2017) suggested that several terrorist attacks in Europe had been

false-flag A false flag operation is an act committed with the intent of disguising the actual source of responsibility and pinning blame on another party. The term "false flag" originated in the 16th century as an expression meaning an intentional misr ...

operations. Writing in 2017 about the relationship between

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and

historical negationism Historical negationism, also called denialism, is falsification or distortion of the historical record. It should not be conflated with ''historical revisionism'', a broader term that extends to newly evidenced, fairly reasoned academic reinterp ...

, Nicholas Terry, a historian at

Exeter University , mottoeng = "We Follow the Light" , established = 1838 - St Luke's College1855 - Exeter School of Art1863 - Exeter School of Science 1955 - University of Exeter (received royal charter) , type = Public , ...

, referred to Kollerstrom as a "classic example of so-called crank magnetism".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. Together with Ian Fantom, a 9/11 truther, Kollerstrom co-founded Keep Talking, a conspiracy theory discussion group. In 2018 six of the group's events were cancelled by the venue

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when Kollerstrom's involvement was revealed. Kollerstrom has regularly appeared on the

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-associated '' Richie Allen Show'', including on Holocaust Memorial Day in 2016. Allen described Kollerstrom's

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work as "vital". Kollerstrom has also attended meetings of the far-right

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Selected works

Books *(1980) with Simon Best. ''Lunar Planting Manual 1980–81'', Marlow: W. Foulsham & Co. Ltd. *(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. *(1984) ''Astrochemistry: A Study of Metal–Planet Affinities'', London: Emergence Press. *(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. *(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. *(2002) ''Crop Circles: The Hidden Form'', Salisbury: Wessex Books. *(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 (availabl
here
. *(2004) with Nicholas Campion (eds.). ''Galileo's Astrology'', Bristol: Culture and Cosmos. *(2008) ''Venus, the Path of Beauty'', Butleigh: Squeeze. *(2009) ''Terror on the Tube: Behind the Veil of 7/7, An Investigation'', San Diego: Progressive Press. *(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. *(2014) ''The Secrets of the Seven Metals: A Bridge Between Heaven and Earth'', New Alchemy Press. *(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. *(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. *(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. *(1980
"The Lawther Report: Whitewashing Leaded Petrol"
, ''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. *(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. *(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. *(2000
"How Newton inspired China's calendar"
''Astronomy & Geophysics'', 41(5), pp. 21–22. *(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. *(2001) with Gerhard Staudenmaier. "Evidence for Lunar-Sidereal Rhythms in Crop Yield: A Review", ''Journal Biological Agriculture & Horticulture'', 19(3), pp. 247–259. *(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. *(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. *(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. *(2004
"William Crabtree's Venus transit observation"
''Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union'', IAUC196, pp. 34–40. Also in D. W. Kurtz (ed.), ''Transits of Venus: New Views of the Solar System and Galaxy'', Cambridge University Press, 2005, p.&nbs
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"
an
"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"
, ''Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage'', 12(1), pp. 66–71.

Notes

References

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