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From: sarge@metapsy.UUCP (Sarge Gerbode)
Newsgroups: sci.bio,sci.misc
Subject: Re: Strange results in Nature article (fallout...)
Keywords: skepticism debunking
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Date: 2 Aug 88 05:04:47 GMT
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In article <1663@microsoft.UUCP> gordonl@microsoft.UUCP (Gordon Letwin) writes:
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>And sending Randi et. al. to the lab is *checking* for fraud.  His presense
>is in no way an accusation.

I think that's like saying that being investigated by the House Unamerican
Activities Commission in the '50s was no accusation of communist affiliations.
The accusation is implicit, and the trial is by the press.  The verdict is -- an
unwarranted loss of money and reputation, despite the absence of any finding of
fraud.  The defendant was innocent, but the sentence was imposed anyway.  Is
that fair?
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