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From: awinterb@udenva.UUCP (Mr. Poot)
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Subject: Re: Accuracy in Academia
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Date: Sat, 4-Oct-86 22:52:19 EDT
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>was trying to peddle some unorthodox ideas. He remarked that an unusually
>high percentage (%25) of medical doctors in the USSR were Jews, which attested,
>in his view, to the high success and influence of Jews in the Soviet
>society. The man had several fish to fry, I guess.

>AIA-like organization can be instrumental in curtailing such looney
>outpours, although I don't know AIA well enough to voice my support for
>its activities.
>
>		Mike Cherepov
>(BTW, even given that his figures were correct, medical doctors aren't at....

In the academic community, we
would check to see if his
figures were verifiable.  Then,
if the figures were correct,
we could examine his conclusions.
The distance between data and
conclusion is measured.  This
is a scientific method.  You
are a computer scientist.  Did
you employ the scientific method?


Art. W.