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On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 05:08:03PM +0800, Xiaofan Chen wrote:
> On Dec 9, 2007 4:36 PM, Xiaofan Chen <xiaofanc@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > http://www.phyast.pitt.edu/~blc/book/BOOK.html
> >
> > Back to the book, I just read a bit on the chapter. Now we
> > need the data.
> >
> 
> So I read more, and my overall viewpoint of the book is not
> high at all. It wants to discuss the technical part, but I
> find it more political and propaganda rather than technical.
> 
> http://www.phyast.pitt.edu/~blc/book/chapter14.html
> "The validity of their views depends on social, political, demographic,
> and psychological considerations on which I have no claim to expertise.
> I only want it to be clearly understood that their ideas are driven by
> political
> considerations rather than by scientific, technical, or economic analyses.
> Their attempts at the latter have been shallow and heavily biased and have
> generally received rebuttal rather than acceptance by experts."
> 
> The above is highly inappropriate if the author claims to address the
> issues on technical merits. The words like "shallow and heavily biased"
> may be use by the other side as well. And then the whole discussion
> becomes useless.
> 
> I do not need this Christmas present after all.

If you're not interested, I'd be glad to take it. I can think of a lot
of students at my school who'd get some good value out of it and I'll do
my best to get it in the hands of those who would be receptive.

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