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From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: sci.bio,sci.misc,sci.research
Subject: Re: Strange results in Nature article
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Date: 29 Jul 88 03:01:45 GMT
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In article <4520@ut-emx.UUCP> ethan@ut-emx.UUCP (Ethan Tecumseh Vishniac) writes:
>
>I see in today's newspaper that an investigation by Nature  discovered
>that there were at least two problems (fatal problems) with the
>laboratory protocol.
[...]
> The author (Benveniste ?) is
>standing by the work and has denounced the investigation as sloppy
>and unprofessional.
[...]
>
>-- 
> I'm not afraid of dying     Ethan Vishniac, Dept of Astronomy, Univ. of Texas
> I just don't want to be     {charm,ut-sally,ut-ngp,noao}!utastro!ethan
> there when it happens.      (arpanet) ethan@astro.AS.UTEXAS.EDU
>    - Woody Allen            (bitnet) ethan%astro.as.utexas.edu@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU

This is funny.  That denial is worded almost identically to the one
given by [something] Methodist University [something] in the Daily
Free Press (the B.U. paper) about a report one of _its_own_ comittees
gave which confirmed reports of much unprofessionalism in the B.U. School
of Theology.  It seems those hoping for a biased result are in the
same groove when it comes to supporting thair suspect actions.
Or it could be E.S.P.

				--Blair