On Comrade Timiryazev’s attitude towards contemporary science

[188] Our note, signed H.E., on the fifth Congress of Russian Physicists appeared in No. 1 [of this journal] (Gessen & Egorshin 1927a, 134–141 [TN]). Cde. A. Timiryazev3 was displeased with the note, especially with our brief report on the debate over his own report. We do not consider the pages of our journal to be a suitable place for conducting polemics on special issues in physics. The journal Under the Banner of Marxism4 has set other tasks for itself. Therefore, we will not enter into a discussion of the purely physical, experimental and technical aspects of the Dayton Miller5 and Kennedy experiments.6 Discussion on these matters should be conducted in special physics journals. That part of Cde. Timaryazev’s article devoted to the controversy and to Prof. S.I. Vavilov’s7 objections, would be most appropriate in the journal where S.I. Vavilov’s article was published.