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Post by Col 'NDX on Sept 8, 2009 12:57:56 GMT
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Post by sigurdur on Sept 8, 2009 13:23:38 GMT
How can anyone with anyyyyy degree of integrity keep spouting this kind of stuff out? ?
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Post by nautonnier on Sept 8, 2009 13:51:32 GMT
How can anyone with anyyyyy degree of integrity keep spouting this kind of stuff out? ? Its like many research papers - they start from false assumptions then expand on them in ever more lurid terms. The authors hope that their papers will be picked up as a citation on which an even more lurid paper will be written (kudos and tenure can depend on citations -and these are more important than being correct). Unfortunately, the academic press, peer reviewers and academia itself has become as lazy as the tabloid press and just regurgitates the follow on papers as 'gospel' especially when the papers support their own views. When presented with papers like this one the first thing to do is check the assumptions on which it is based. Invariably, they are shaky at best.
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