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[RuthWeiner@AOL.COM]

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Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 18:40:22 EDT

Subject: Re: Established, mainstream, orthodox, and august organizations

To: Gerald.Falo@apg.amedd.army.mil, radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

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Peer-reviewed publication used to be the "gold standard" for science, and as

far as I am concerned it's the best standard we have.  Not that it's always

great -- there is occasional stuff in the journals I subscribe to that is

pure  nonsense -- but it's all there is.  That and one's own scientific

knowledge.  And when I hear that stuff about "you can't trust stuff that the

government paid for" I just tell the person "too bad.  I can't help what you

will or won't trust."  There is no effective counter to the argument "I

don't

trust -- or believe..."  i think the "trust" question is mostly a smoke

screen and last-ditch stand for people who strongly suspect that they

themselves are wrong.



Ruth Weiner, Ph. D.

ruthweiner@aol.com





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