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Subject:Re: NOAA Global Warming Is Caused By Cows and Tree Huggers
Date:Fri, 17 Feb 06 11:09:32 GMT
From:lparker@emory.edu (Lloyd Parker)
Newsgroups:sci.space.policy,sci.environment,sci.geo.geology,sci.geo.oceanography,sci.geo.meteorology
In article <43f5ebee$0$11071$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>,
   Rich <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>Lloyd Parker wrote:
>> 
>> Not using water and platinum electrodes there isn't.
>> 
>Sure. But that doesn't mean F&P were quacks or that their work is the 
>prime example of bad science. They were sloppy, that is true. Had they 
>waited one more year and had they done more history might've been more 
>benign to them.
True, but they exemplified the short-cutting of the scientific method -- keep 
things secret so you can patent them instead of subjecting them to peer 
review.  That's why they're so villified.