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374	Hi, Most likely you received this e-mail from a friend. They made a very wise choice when they decided to forward it. We hope you make the same choice and ...	Gayle Long blueiis001@...	Jul 3, 2001 1:27 am
375	To the Editor of SCIPOLICY™ - The Journal of Science and Health Policy™ (For publication) COST OF SCIENTIFIC INTEGRITY I note with keen interest the...	theotheocharis@...	Jul 4, 2001 2:03 am
376	Let me start by saying that I think there is some merit to what you're saying, at least you deserve a larger audience than you currently enjoy. But I would...	Prof S Fuller s.w.fuller@...	Jul 4, 2001 11:21 am
377	I just received this spam that I thought you might enjoy . . . Chuckle, Chuckle. I am spending my fourth of July holiday by grading summer session papers and ...	Stephen Miles Sacks, ... Editor@...	Jul 5, 2001 12:56 am
378	Thanks very much for your concern! For more than a decade, apart from the Editor of Episteme (who has just published my essay "The meaning of ‘science’...	theotheocharis@...	Jul 6, 2001 3:49 am
380	Re: the role of the National Research Council Perhaps the advisory role of the NRC, particularly its influence on what is deemed to be "acceptable science,"...	Zaman Frederick L Civ... Frederick.Zaman@...	Jul 12, 2001 2:47 pm
381	There is a long standing issue in the history of science and technology studies. It is whether the history of science and technology provides analogies that...	Stephen Miles Sacks, ... Editor@...	Jul 15, 2001 2:53 pm
382	'CRITERION OF VERIFIABILITY' VERIFIED Dear Steve, I have just read your new article in MetaScience 10(2) July 2001 pp. 171-9. As you must have gathered, we...	theotheocharis@...	Jul 17, 2001 11:07 pm
383	Theo Theocharis' postings point to several important issues about the process of debate and the way science communications are conducted. First, his own...	Stephen Miles Sacks, ... Editor@...	Jul 20, 2001 4:56 pm
384	I quote from 20Jul01 New York Times, "Genome Mappers Navigate the Tricky Terrain of Race", By NICHOLAS WADE. ... [snip] ... [snip] ... [snip] ... [snip] ... ...	Brad McCormick, Ed.D. bradmcc@...	Jul 21, 2001 1:00 am
385	I thought that the ideal of science was the truth--let the facts fall where they may; that science is responsible only for the accumulation of knowledge and...	Zaman Frederick L Civ... Frederick.Zaman@...	Jul 23, 2001 4:36 pm
386	Zaman either reifies or anthropomorphizes science unhelpfully when he writes that "the ideal of science [is] the truth...[and] that science is responsible only...	David Guston dahagu@...	Jul 23, 2001 5:10 pm
387	THE PROBLEM OF PEERLESSNESS The Feedback column of the 24 April 1999 issue of New Scientist contains this remarkable passage: "In the absence of any specialist...	theotheocharis@...	Jul 24, 2001 2:14 am
388	I fully agree with Zaman. Or else, we should blame Sociology and Political Sciences for the social and political problems of the world ... Medical and drug...	Fernando D.A. Pires favila@...	Jul 24, 2001 12:03 pm
389	Actually, we should be prepared to blame particular sociologists and political scientists for the damage their knowledge has wreaked on the world, especially...	Prof S Fuller s.w.fuller@...	Jul 24, 2001 12:41 pm
390	But Steve, if we're talking about the scientific enterprise in the United States, much of it has been crafted with the policy advice not of professional...	David Guston dahagu@...	Jul 24, 2001 1:55 pm
391	... I've heard this often, but why should science be construed this way? Given that scientists are very prone to say that people who don't understand the...	patricia bowne PBOWNE@...	Jul 24, 2001 2:21 pm
392	Perhaps the "ideals of science" are simply those that reflect the commonly accepted understanding of scientists collectively, regarding whatever has been...	Zaman Frederick L Civ... Frederick.Zaman@...	Jul 24, 2001 2:40 pm
393	... And a good thing, too! NL _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at...	Norman Levitt njlevitt@...	Jul 24, 2001 7:28 pm
394	Physicists acknowledge that Newtonian theory is an approximation that gives acceptable results only in the domain of classical physics where it applies. They...	Zaman Frederick L Civ... Frederick.Zaman@...	Jul 24, 2001 7:59 pm
395	What about the industrial sector, where "truth" may involve patent rights and trade secrets? Many Fortune 500 companies are well represented -- but never...	Albert Henderson alh@...	Jul 24, 2001 9:23 pm
399	Yes, of course you're right. But my point is the more general one that everyone should be held responsible for the advice they give on the basis of what they...	Prof S Fuller s.w.fuller@...	Jul 25, 2001 3:05 pm
400	A similar point can be made about a coterie of influential scientists, high level committee, or other socio-political/educational grouping within science,...	Zaman Frederick L Civ... Frederick.Zaman@...	Jul 25, 2001 9:23 pm
402	Thanks to Physician's News Digest-Southeastern Pennsylvania edition: STUDIES SUGGESTING THAT MEDICAL ERRORS KILL UP TO 98,000 U.S. HOSPITAL PATIENTS EACH YEAR...	Stephen Miles Sacks, ... Editor@...	Jul 26, 2001 2:41 am
403	Subject: From: Host: Date: This posting was simultaneously sent to NBC News via their website and their MSNBC NEWS Discussion Board . We invite their...	Stephen Miles Sacks, ... Editor@...	Jul 26, 2001 4:07 am
405	Personal postings and self-crusades with cc's to other groups are inappropriate. Indeed, they are offensive and distract from the group's business as well as...	Stephen Miles Sacks, ... Editor@...	Jul 26, 2001 6:22 pm
406	The following response was received from a member of the International Network on Public Communication of Science and Technology Stephen Stephen Miles Sacks,...	Stephen Miles Sacks, ... Editor@...	Jul 26, 2001 6:29 pm
407	The previous posting used the following criterion to distinguish scientific knowledge worthy of widespread media coverage from scientific knowledge unworthy of...	David Guston dahagu@...	Jul 26, 2001 6:42 pm
408	TO: PCST and SCIPOLICY-L I enclose below an excellent analysis from Prof. David Guston in response to Prof. Patricia Linn's posting on PCST - which I had...	Stephen Miles Sacks, ... Editor@...	Jul 26, 2001 7:21 pm
409	... Daubert, etc., are not paragons of clarity and explicitness. But the general tendency, as cases accumulate and rulings come down, is to interpret them as...	Norman Levitt njlevitt@...	Jul 26, 2001 8:43 pm

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