Since the petition did not succeed in getting the editors to either apologize or retract the disclaimer, I would like to now gauge professional opinion about this whole affair.
UPDATE AT 2:30 PM CST: So after two hours, and about 300 votes, 75% of respondents report that L'Affaire Synthese has lowered their opinion of the journal, which I suppose might qualify as a public relations disaster. The only good news for Synthese in that figure, however, is that a third of those whose opinion of the journal has been lowered are not working in areas which make it likely they would either submit to or referee for Synthese; on the other hand, more than 80% of those who do work in the journal's areas and whose opinion is lower also report that they are either likely or certain to stop submitting to or refereeing for the journal, at least until amends or changes are made. We'll see if those proportions hold.
UPDATE AT 7 PM CST: Not much change since earlier, but I wanted to note that this new polling service does record IP addresses, and while these will not be disclosed, it will make it possible to tell if votes in certain categories are coming disproportionately from certain places.
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