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Comments on Weinstein's comments arXiv: 2509.09361 & 2510.03793

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In 2024, after thirty years of research on this subject, I published a book entitled: \textit{Poincaré, Einstein and the discovery of special relativity. An end to the controversy} \cite{Ginoux2024}. In September 2025, Galina Weinstein published a review of this book entitled: \textit{Convergences and Divergences: Einstein Poincaré and Special Relativity} (arXiv:2509.09361) in which she harshly criticized my work in an unfair and error filled manner. The, she published a second comment (arXiv: 2510.03793) in which she added she added insults about me to all her mistakes, falsehoods and misleading criticisms. So I've decided to reply to her comments, in an academic way (as she would normally have done), in order to demonstrate that her allegedly ``novel way'' of reconstructing the history of the theory of special relativity is purely based on her own interpretation of the facts and not on the facts themselves. To this aim, I will follow the structure of each Weinstein's comment (arXiv: 2509.09361 \& 2510.03793) and I will highlight section by section all the erroneous things she has reported and repeated.

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Jean-Marc Ginoux. 2025-11-06. Comments on Weinstein's comments arXiv: 2509.09361 & 2510.03793. https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22726

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