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- From: crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass)
- Subject: Re: "What's New" July-24-1992
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.024403.5319@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 02:44:03 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul29.012628.4238@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gsh7w@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Hennessy) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul29.010055.3863@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- >crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass) writes:
- ># NIH is being forced to fund study into chiropractry(?) along with the
- ># other 'alternative medicine' approaches.
- >
- >"Forced"? I would consider such studies to be good. Surgeons don't
- >have a monopoly in how to help people get better. Alternative methods,
- >which are probably less expensive than "mainstream" medicine are good
- >things if they are effective.
-
- Yes 'forced'. Meaning that they were made to do something that
- they would rather not, for good and obvious reasons.
-
- ># As far as astrology goes, I'd think that such widespread antiscientific
- ># beliefs would be of great interest to those in the APS apparently
- ># interested in scientific purity.
- >
- >Yea, those astrologers might be after our vital bodily fluids. Come on
- >Dale, this is farther then even you normally stretch a point. I have
- >seen letters from the APS to newspapers asking them to put disclaimers
- >on horoscopes.
-
- Where? When? Publicity? Studies? Commissions?
-
- The position of the APS is that the space station is not 'science'
- and should not be funded as such. I would just expect them to pursue
- other 'science purity' issues with the same vigour.
-
- ># Also, I'm sure such base things as dollars never come into consideration
- ># of certain members of the APS when things like the integrity of science
- ># come into play. After all, we have been told many times that the APS
- ># is not against SSF because of the competition for money, just because
- ># 'it is not science'.
- >
- >Well the only person who says that dollars never come into
- >consideration is you, so you get little credit from knocking down your
- >own strawman.
-
- So it is competition for dollars with other programs of more
- direct interest to APS rather than the 'science-thing'? I'm
- shocked.
-
- >As for the space station not being science, read todays Post and
- >you'll see that Goldin's article has the first 4 non-introductory
- >paragraphs being the scientific return of SSF. If Goldin is going to
- >make "scientific" return the number 1 thing he talks about, it is
- >quite fair to point out it ain't much science to be done, and the
- >budget is better spent in other programs.
-
- Agreed. However, it is disingenuous to say that it is any different
- for SSC. By the way, the hypocracy of the APS with regard to
- SSF and SSC was the original subject. It still exists.
-
- dale bass
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