On Walter Wagner: "I am a nuclear physicist with extensive training in the field...." He has a B.S. in biological sciences with physics minor (1972), graduate degree in law (1978). "Worked extensively in cosmic radiation research" at UC Berkeley (1973). "Began employment as a federal nuclear safety officer" at the VA in 1979, is currently retired from federal employment. Taught high-school science and math after that retirement but is now retired from teaching as well.
As I mentioned in the article, Wagner has been involved with legal action against RHIC that went nowhere. Some years ago, I wrote about Wagner's campaign against uranium-glazed ceramics, and you might find that story interesting:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3077213/
Wagner also sent me an e-mail relating to the recent polonium-poisoning controversy:
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/
archive/2006/12/27/23008.aspx
I don't really know Sancho ... Wagner says Sancho is a Spanish citizen who is a permanent resident of the U.S. and lives in Hawaii. Here's some further info from his affidavit:
"I am a System Scientist specialized in Cosmology and Time Theory. I obtained my undergraduate degree at Barcelona University, Barcelona, Spain. I followed with my post-graduate studies at Columbia University, New York and developed a career as a Writer on scientific themes in Spain."
Based on the affidavit, I would characterize Sancho as a science writer. He does have a Web site called
http://www.unificationtheory.com/ ... the material there looks like gobbledygook to me. To be fair, a highly technical paper from, say, Stephen Hawking might have a bit of what looks like gobbledygook to me as well.
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxi...f/0803/0803.1663v1.pdf
However, I'm pretty sure Hawking would consider Sancho's work to be gobbledygook as well.
Sancho doesn't appear to have a high opinion of Hawking, either. In this forum, a poster who gave the name "Luis Sancho" calls Hawking a "ga-ga guy" and part of the "biggest terrorist team of human history":