Editorial Team
Editorial Team
The people who run the journal
The Natural Philosophy Journal is edited by long-standing members of the dissident science community. Between them they have decades of experience publishing, presenting and reviewing work outside the mainstream.
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Editor-in-Chief
David de Hilster
Northeastern University · dehilster.com
Sets the journal's editorial direction and makes the final decision on every paper published.
David de Hilster is a computer scientist who has worked for four decades in artificial intelligence, natural language processing, online gaming and supercomputing. He co-authored the NLP++ programming language and the VisualText development environment. He holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics and a master's in linguistics from Ohio State University.
He is president of the John Chappell Natural Philosophy Society, where he has worked for decades with researchers outside mainstream physics. He produced and directed the documentary Einstein Wrong – The Miracle Year, and is completing a book on a physical model of the universe, The Four Universal Motions in Physics, with his father.
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Managing Editor · Author relations
Greg Volk
John Chappell Natural Philosophy Society
The first point of contact for authors. Answers questions about submissions and guides each paper through review and publication.
Greg Volk is an electrical engineer, entrepreneur and independent researcher in fundamental physics. He studied electrical engineering at Stanford University. His research centres on Maxwell's equations, a matter-based form of Mach's Principle, toroidal and vortex models of particles, and frame-independent dynamics. He is known for his widely circulated paper 39 Questionable Assumptions in Modern Physics.
He served as president of the Natural Philosophy Alliance and as vice-president of its successor, the John Chappell Natural Philosophy Society, and contributed most of the entries in the Natural Philosophers Database.
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Business Manager
John H. Reed, M.D.
World Institute for Scientific Exploration
Oversees the journal's finances, including its budget, accounts and the paper formatting service.
John H. Reed is a physician and the President and Chief Executive Officer of the World Institute for Scientific Exploration (WISE), a non-profit research organization in Baltimore, Maryland. He holds an M.D., a Master of Public Health and an MBA, and studied at Johns Hopkins University.
His interests lie in the scientific investigation of unconventional and anomalous subjects. He has long directed the Institute's publication, the WISE Journal, and leads its Health and Medicine Division.
Contact the editors
Questions about submitting, reviewing or the journal in general go to contact@naturalphilosophy.org. Our reviewers are listed on the Reviewers page.
