Re: What excuse next for no pay

[epirad@mchsi.com]

Dr. Cohen,



Can you or some one else point us to the location in the archives where you 

specified letter-to-the editor?



This link does not mention that requirement.



http://www.vanderbilt.edu/radsafe/0201/msg00422.html



Regards, Bill Field

> 	My reward offer was for a "Letter-to-the-Editor of Health Physics

> or an equivalent journal".I know that this was stated explicitly more than

> once on RADSAFE and the reason for that stipulation was explained -- a

> Letter-to-the-Editor gives me a chance to respond in the same issue. That

> stimulates discussion of my work, which is the reason for my offer. With a

> paper like Puskin's, my response will not appear until about a year later,

> which is not a very effective discussion.

> 	I explained this on RADSAFE more than once. There have been

> several exchanges about my offers on RADSAFE over the last few years, and

> I may not have explained these matters fully in every exchange, so you can

> pick a quote from these many discussions where I do not give the full

> explanation.

> 	My offer still stands, as originally given and reviewed above.

> 

> Bernard L. Cohen

> Physics Dept.

> University of Pittsburgh

> Pittsburgh, PA 15260

> Tel: (412)624-9245

> Fax: (412)624-9163

> e-mail: blc@pitt.edu

> 

> 



> On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, Carl Miller wrote:

> 

> > Dr. Cohen,

> >

> > I did not ask if you responded to Dr. Puskin since that is not required 

> according to your reward offer below. I asked if you paid the money to Dr. 

> Puskin for having a suggested cause of your findings published in the Health 

> Phsysics Journal. It is very telling that you failed to answer such a direct 

> question.  You continue to offer permutations of rewards, but it is now 

> painfully obvious that you never intended to honor your offer.

> >

> > You guranteed to pay anyone who had any suggestion (with no qualifications) 

> PUBLISHED.

> >

> > Then you said you would only pay if it was published in the Health Physics 

> Journal.

> >

> > OK, that has now been done. I look forward to hearing what excuse will be 

> given now.  After all, you were the one who stated,

> >

> > http://www.vanderbilt.edu/radsafe/0201/msg00422.html

> >

> > "In all of the reward offers I made for explanations of my data, there was no 

> requirement that the explanation be proven to be correct. On the contrary, it 

> was up to me to prove that it cannot be correct. If I could not prove it to be 

> very highly implausible in the view of neutral observers, the reward would be 

> paid. Now I have even dropped my option for proving that it is not correct -- if 

> the suggested explanation gets ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION (you don't say where), 

> the reward is paid whether or not I can prove that it is incorrect."

> >

> >

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