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- From: jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy)
- Subject: Re: scientific literature
- In-Reply-To: phillies@wpi.WPI.EDU's message of 26 Jul 92 19:23:48 GMT
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- Date: 26 Jul 92 14:25:59
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- The critical criterion for a scientific journal these days is whether
- the articles are subjected to peer review as a criterion for being
- published. _Scientific American_ doesn't do this, and the articles
- in the _News and Comment_ section of _Science_ aren't either. Neither
- are the articles in _Technology Review_ or the articles in the
- National Academies' _Issues in Science and Technology_. My opinion
- is that there should be a refereed magazine dealing in popular
- language with issues arising out of science and technology. The
- refereeing might have a different character than standard scientific
- refereeing. The referees couldn't reject an article on the grounds
- that the author was wrong, but they could make him deal with a
- consideration he was ignoring.
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- John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
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- He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
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