RE: virus: Free thought and control

Robin Faichney (r.j.faichney@stir.ac.uk)
Fri, 17 Oct 1997 19:58:51 +0100


> From: chardin[SMTP:chardin@uabid.dom.uab.edu]
>
> > >There were no doubt thousands of papers written on
> > >this subject, all of them relying heavily on this man and his work.
> > > Yet it took one good scientists 10 minutes to realize the papers
> > >written by this man were false--50 years after the fact.
>
I missed the original message, but it seems worth
pointing out that results normally have to be
replicated before they're widely accepted.

Robin