About the Researcher

John W. Oller, Jr., with a PhD in General Linguistics from the University of Rochester, joined the faculty at UCLA in the summer of 1969 and was accelerated to tenure and the Associate Professorship in 1971. He joined the faculty at the University of New Mexico in 1972 and founded the Department of Linguistics. He was promoted to the Full Professorship in 1980 and in 1997, moved to Louisiana to build the PhD in Applied Language and Speech Sciences (ALSS). It was approved unanimously by the Board of Regents in 2001. Oller held an endowed professorship funded by Doris B. Hawthorne and the Board of Regents beginning in 2004 for which he was consistently re-upped with a unanimous recommendation every three years until after he filed the federal lawsuit Oller vs. Roussel et al., December 24, 2011. The following year his endowed position was taken from him and awarded to one of the named Defendants in that lawsuit. That and certain facts discovered in the course of the federal lawsuit led to the filing of a state level suit Docket Number: C20-144072 J on August 12, 2014. Both lawsuits were eventually settled on October 9, 2017 with certain concessions to Oller. On June 1, 2021 Oller voluntarily resigned from UL Lafayette. He retains his status as Professor Emeritus at the University of New Mexico (joller@unm.edu).

For the 2010 Centennial Celebration at Fresno City College (FCC), based on his essay about great teachers Oller was invited to nominate Hans Wiedenhoefer as one of “100 Stars for 100 Years”.  Wiedenhoefer [1920-2006] was a national Hall of Fame coach and athlete in both football and wrestling, a Purple Heart medalist for the landing at Iwo Jima in WWII. Wiedenhoefer was almost immortalized as one of the marines who raised the American flag on the top of Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima, February 23, 1945. When asked about the event, he recalled, “The captain lined us up and said you, you, you, you, and I was next in line.”  He was a handsome, soft-spoken historian, scholar, marine, and athlete-extraordinaire. At the Centennial Ceremony, Hans was represented by his sons Hans Jr. and Kurt who accepted the honor in behalf of their father four years after his death in 2006. Based on Oller’s essay featuring Wiedenhoefer, he also was included as one of the centennial stars. It seemed that Wiedenhoefer was the very first of the “100 Stars” and the former student who nominated him, John Oller, was the 100th.

Oller’s current research continues to examine biosignaling systems and the human language capacity. Unsurprisingly, theoretical and empirical studies show that disorders, diseases, and mortality are caused by disruption of biological messages. Factors involved include toxicants, macro and micro collisions, pathogenic invasions, and stress from a great variety of sources. It comes out that health and well-being are dependent on true representations in biosignaling systems that are correctly understood. For published mathematical proofs revealing the dependence of all meaningful sign systems on ordinary true narrative representations (TNRs), see The antithesis of entropy 2010 and Biosemiotic Entropy: Concluding the Series 2014. In July 2020, Oller became the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice, and Research.

To survive and thrive, we depend on TNRs. The immediate problem is how to avoid pain and misery while postponing death, yet we long for an eternal solution. So, comes the crucial question: if God has revealed His grace and mercy in the work of Christ on the cross, will we believe it? Is the biblical Gospel true? I believe it is, and that “ordinary truth” is accessible even to a child of about 3 to 8 years. At any rate, experimental scientific advances depend on the kind of truth that a child can understand. My own best arguments along this line, from the scientific perspective, especially the mathematical view of things, can be found in my YouTube on Quantum Connectedness.