Scientific Journals - you're putting New (political) Scientist in the same category as bona-fide "science journals"? Shame shame ... Perhaps they should change their name to "The Possibility Journal", "Hypothesis Weekly", "Guess Daily", "We're-Taking- a-Stab-In-The-Dark-On-This-One-Monthly" or "Dartboard Daily"? RF Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Russell McMahon" To: Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2002 9:35 PM Subject: Re: [OT]: Free New Scientist weekly email newsletter > > When they start loading in the > > weasel words such as 'may be possble' and "it's possible" - > > those are your leading indices that you're being "snowed" > > May well be true here BUT this is of course also the terminology of true > Science. The actual words used in some cases may be slightly more erudite > but Science is about saying "has not been able to be disproved so far" and > is never about saying "it's a fact that". > > It's when Scientific journals start making hard statements of fact that you > should most be on the lookout for weasels :-) > > > R :-) M > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.