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- From: tomk@netcom.com (Thomas H. Kunich)
- Subject: Re: Notes/ visit to Takahashi's lab
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.011602.22278@netcom.com>
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 01:16:02 GMT
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- With all due respect to Dr. Takahashi, I must make some comments
- on Rothwell's embarassing and unwarranted diatribe.
-
- It would seem rather apparent when a scientist reports that a
- meagerly instrumented experiment is reporting highly positive
- data and then the experiment is more carefully instrumented and
- then reports very much less positive results that the cause may
- not be the changing of the experiment but the more careful gathering
- and evaluation of the data.
-
- Steven Jones now tells us that the cells were open and that no
- _calibration_ was taken.
-
- Bearing this in mind, I think that Dr. Takahashi may have been a
- bit early in reporting his data.
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- This is not to say that he has found no results, but that it would
- appear that his results are unreliably documented.
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