Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxb!mhuxr!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxd!rlr From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Dinsdale Piranha) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: Re: Honesty Message-ID: <485@pyuxd.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 11:59:44 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxd.485 Posted: Thu Feb 7 11:59:44 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Feb-85 05:41:00 EST References: <968@utastro.UUCP> <4565@cbscc.UUCP> <1012@utastro.UUCP> <4639@cbscc.UUCP>, <330@cybvax0.UUCP> <4724@cbscc.UUCP> Organization: The Gang - Other Other Operations Division Lines: 14 > Letters to journals hardly constitute scientific review. In paticular they > don't do much to expose things like faked data. A good scientific review > process involves scrutiny of work by one's peers before anything is even > published. [PAUL DUBUC] I wonder how much work Paul (and others like him) have done in examining whether or not HIS sources (e.g., very old books) contain "faked data", or made-up stories, or propaganda, or ... Or is that not necessary? -- BRIAN: "You're all different!" CROWD: "YES, WE'RE ALL DIFFERENT!" Rich Rosen MAN: "I'm not ... " {ihnp4 | harpo}!pyuxd!rlr