RE: Truth in scholarship -- Second comment

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>]

I feel that it cheapens the message, and also the

messenger.  It the academic world, that can have a

chilling effect. See "Scholars, Hucksters, Copycats

and Frauds" at

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38702-2004Apr24.html



--- Bob Scott <bscott@4scotts.net> wrote:

> Surely Mr. Adler doesn't think that only the

> pro-nuke experts perform

> this 'service', does he?

> 

> Robert A. Scott, CHP

> Westerly, Rhode Island

> 

> 

> > -----Original Message-----

> > From: owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

> [mailto:owner-

> > radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu] On Behalf Of John

> Jacobus

> > 

> > The following appeared in yesterday's Washington

> Post.

> > 

> > How Original . . .

> > 

> >  By William M. Adler

> > 

> >   AUSTIN

> > 

> >  Everyone has quirks. Among mine is an obsession

> with

> > matters nuclear: weapons, power, waste. I've been

> > writing about little else for several years. So I

> was

> > intrigued not long ago to run across an opinion

> piece

> > in my hometown daily, the Austin

> American-Statesman

> 

> 

> > this, I was under the impression that, rightfully

> or

> > wrongfully, I was the only guy."

> > 

> 

> 

>

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John Jacobus, MS

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