Reviewers

Every paper submitted to the journal is read by independent reviewers. The people below have agreed to be listed publicly as members of our reviewer pool. Being listed does not indicate that someone reviewed any particular paper. Reviewer identities on individual papers remain confidential.

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  David de Hilster

  Northeastern University

  dehilster.com

  David de Hilster is a computer scientist in the area of artificial intelligence and natural language processing (NLP). David holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and a Master’s degree in Linguistics, both from Ohio State University and has been working in industry as a computer scientist for four decades in the areas of artificial intelligence, online gaming, and supercomputers.

  David is renowned for his pioneering work in natural language processing, having co-authored the computer language NLP++ and the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) VisualText. He has given lectures at universities and mentored students from around the world on intelligent programming using NLP++. David is also involved in developing the first university courses on rule-based NLP using NLP++ and is founder and director of the Natural Language Understanding Global Initiative whose objectives is the transfer of human knowledge to computers using NLP++.

  David is also an accomplished artist, filmmaker, and theoretical physics aficionado. His artworks have been sponsored by the Los Angeles Country Museum of Art Rental gallery and are bought by private collectors. He is also president of the John Chappell Natural Philosophy Society where he has work for decades with some of the greatest minds outside mainstream physics. He is finishing a second book on a physical model of the universe with his father entitled “The Four Universal Motions in Physics”. David has also produced and directed the feature-length documentary “Einstein Wrong – The Miracle Year,” which explores the problems with Einstein theory of relativity.

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  John Reed

  World Institute for Scientific Exploration

  John H. Reed, M.D., is an American physician and the President and Chief Executive Officer of the World Institute for Scientific Exploration (WISE), a non-profit research organization based 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, including energy medicine, complementary and traditional medicine, alternative energy, consciousness and other unexplained phenomena. He has long directed the Institute's publication, the WISE Journal, and leads its Health and Medicine Division.

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  Greg Volk

  John Chappell Natural Philosophy Society

  Greg Volk is an American electrical engineer, entrepreneur and independent researcher in fundamental physics. He studied electrical engineering at Stanford University, completing the core undergraduate physics curriculum as well, and worked in optical character recognition and CAD conversion before a varied business career.

  His research centres on Maxwell's equations, Mach's Principle in a matter-based form, toroidal and vortex models of particles, and the total (convective) time derivative as the basis of a 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. He lives in Eagan, Minnesota.