X-Message-Number: 7605
Subject: Visser
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 12:30:09 -0500
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <>

> From: 
> 
> All the personal attacks on Visser by some does not change fact that she 
> has made break throughs in two fields.

She has alleged that she has made breakthroughs in two fields. This is
a very different state of affairs.

> All the sudden great admiration for scientific methode by some who
> has not revealed their own research in detail gives one the
> impression that this is a vendetta.

????

Look, if Visser would just publish her results -- I'll take a posting
on the internet with sufficient detail to reproduce the experiments --
and let people freely try to reproduce what she has done, we could all
know, for ourselves without any need for appeal to authority, whether
the stuff is real or whether it is crap. As it is, Visser has taken to
operating with all the stigmata of fraud -- secret results, attempts
to get funding from high government officials without publishing
results, etc, etc.

Frankly, I find the whole thing has the smell of week dead fish, but
Visser could easily dispell the aroma any time she chooses. If she
won't give out data, that is HER FAULT, not ours.

> Can Mr. Plat,
> Merrel and others enlighten us with their accomplishments in detail. Since
> they are such great admirers of peer review could they tell us how many
> papers they have submitted for publication?

Who cares? We are talking about VISSER here, not Charles Platt or
anyone else.

Perry


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