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- From: dean@vexcel.com (Dean Alaska)
- Subject: Re: Why do they hate us?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.160605.9354@vexcel.com>
- Organization: VEXCEL Corporation, Boulder CO
- References: <1992Dec17.015933.18214@vexcel.com> <JMC.92Dec16192145@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 16:06:05 GMT
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- In article <JMC.92Dec16192145@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU writes:
- >I have principles of conscience against paying Greenpeace $10 for 63
- >pages. Actually it takes a lot to convince me to pay anyone $10 for
- >63 pages, and a lot more to convince me to pay Greenpeace any money
- >for anything. Maybe I can look at it in a bookstore.
- >
- >However, we can see what kind of science it is from the title,
- >"Playing With Fire - Hazardous Waste Incineration". It is lawyers'
- >science, a selection of excerpts chosen to support a position taken
- >in advance.
- >
- While the name may not sound like it is from the pages of _Science_,
- this does not say much about the quality of the contents of the
- report. He is prepared to label it lawyer's science without seeing
- it. It does not claim to be original research, and as an input to policy,
- I do not think it is innapropriate to focus on dangers. In that sense,
- it may actually be "lawyer's science", but the question is:
- does it accurately represent the results of scientific study?
-
- I can understand that he does not want to give money
- to Greepeace, so if he will e-mail me his postal address I will be
- willing to send him a copy of a part of the report so that he
- can evaluate it without making a contribution.
- >--
- >John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
- >*
- >He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
- >
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- Dean Myerson (dingo in boulder) (dean@vexcel.com)
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