> > From: chardin[SMTP:chardin@uabid.dom.uab.edu]
> >
> > > >There were no doubt thousands of papers written on
> > > >this subject, all of them relying heavily on this man and his
> > > >work.
> > > > Yet it took one good scientists 10 minutes to realize the
> > > > papers
> > > >written by this man were false--50 years after the fact.
> >
> I missed the original message, but it seems worth
> pointing out that results normally have to be
> replicated before they're widely accepted.
>
> Robin
That is my point. That is an ideal of science. It just isn't the
case. I could give you an even more up-to-date example if you are
interested. However, what the authors of "Betrayers of the Truth"
are trying to point out is that those of us who assert "have to be
replicated before they're widely accepted" are in for a terrible
shock. Chardin