This directory shows the story of the acceptance and ultimate withdrawal
of the paper titled "Does God Command Birth Control?" by Daniel Berry
and Karljuergen Feuerherm, that was to be published in the CCAR Journal,
Reform Jewish Quarterly.

In AcceptanceMessage.txt is the message from Paul Golomb, the EiC of
the CCAR Journal, accepting our paper.

In MarkedUpXBerryXandXFeuerherm.pdf is the marked up galley proof from
the journal, showing that they had typeset it for inclusion. The mark up
documents the mistakes we found and the required corrections. The most
egregious of these errors was the copy editor's redoing of the Google
searches and getting numbers different from what we had gotten WITHOUT
changing the date of the search and the text about what percentage got
each answer.

In toPaulAboutProof.txt is the cover message to Paul that had
MarkedUpXBerryXandXFeuerherm.pdf as an attachment, informing him that
we wanted to see the corrections again before we would approve the
publication of the article. We had been sent the proof with a month to
reply. We sent it back 3.5 weeks early to have the time to do another
round of proofing.

Paul replied soon that the corrections were done. We asked to see the
new version. He replied that he would wait until closer to the deadline.
Paul sat on the proof until close to the deadline, at which time he told
us that it was too late and the paper would go in as he had corrected it.

In general, I do not trust any typesetter to do corrections correctly. So
I told Paul that we would not give permission to publish unless we saw
the latest version and unless we have the opportunity to have corrections
done if necessary.

Please see fromPaul.txt and fromPaul2.txt showing the correspondence
in which Paul says that the correction had been done, and in which we
said that we would withdraw the paper unless we could see the proof. The
correspondence shows that in an attempt to prevent the withdrawal, Paul
offered to correct the Google date, thus admitting that the article was
NOT corrected after all. Finally, the correspondence shows Paul choosing
withdrawal rather than allowing us to see the proof.

The file Gen1-28paper.pdf contains a technical report with all the details
that we could not put into the CCAR paper due to space limitations.
This technical report, written in 2018, has some additional information
that we did not know back on 2016 when the paper was to appear in the
CCAR Journal. The technical report title was changed from "Does God
Command Birth Control?" to "Does Genesis 1:28 Command Birth Control?"