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- From: d3a132@pnl.gov (Carl P Baker)
- Newsgroups: sci.research
- Subject: Re: Naive Question about Publication Practices
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.234134.10117@oracle.pnl.gov>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 23:41:34 GMT
- Article-I.D.: oracle.1992Aug31.234134.10117
- References: <1992Aug31.210301.25308@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
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- In article 25308@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu, fc03@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (Frederick W. Chapman) writes:
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- >as anomalous. If the editorial board and referees of the journal are
- >competent (and I assume that most are much more than competent), then is it
- >not the case that they are capable of evaluating a paper on its merits
- >alone rather than its origin? In fact, to dismiss any result due to its
- >origin rather than its content is a logical fallacy. Educated people
- >should know better.
-
- This is true. They should be (and usually are) capable of evaluating the
- paper regardless of authorship. This doesn't always happen.
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- i.e. "What should be and what is ain't always the same"
-
-
- -- carl
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- Carl P Baker
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