[beliefs] Re: No Subject

From: Linda Rosa ([email protected])
Date: Thu Sep 09 1999 - 15:46:18 MST


The whole thing was thoroughly aired in last issue of SRAM.

-- Linda

>Larry/Linda: In case you missed this request, here it is again.
>
>I've looked at the table of contents for the first issue of SRAM and the
>list of members of the Council for Scientific Medicine (see
>http://www.hcrc.org/sram/index.html and
>http://www.hcrc.org/sram/contents.html), but I haven't found a list of
>editorial board members. The three listed editors are Paul Kurtz, Wallace
>Sampson, and Lewis Vaughn. The authors of articles in the first issue are
>Wallace Sampson, Mahlon Wagner, Bela Scheiber, George Ulett, Saul Green,
>Victor Stenger, John Renner.
>
>Which article by which of these authors contains plagiarism, and from what
>source(s)? If you're going to make such a charge, you should certainly
>back it up.
>
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>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 12:52:37 -0700 (MST)
>From: James J. Lippard <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [beliefs] Re: No Subject
>
>I second the request--further, what was the source being plagiarized from,
>so we can examine this for ourselves. Has a side-by-side comparison been
>put together by anyone, along the lines of
>http://www.primenet.com/~lippard/Bakerreport.txt? (This case involved
>someone still on the _Skeptical Inquirer_ editorial board.)
>
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>On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Kurt Youngmann wrote:
>
>> > You said:
>> >
>> > As a relatively new publication, ScRAM still has to prove its worth. The
>> > fact that it published plagiarized work in its first issue is not an
>> > auspicious start. That the plagiarer remains on its editorial board
>>is not
>> > a good thing. That ScRAM's publisher, Prometheus, is having that
>>plagiarer
>> > edit a book is a bad thing. If at length ScRAM actually publishes Long's
>> > study, it may prove an irretrievable embarrassment for the publication,
>> > indicating that its review process is suspect. I have not yet read the
>> > finished article, but no amount of editing can make a silk's purse out of
>> > the sow's ear that was Long's "experiment" in the first place.
>> >
>> > -- Larry Sarner & Linda Rosa
>> >
>>
>> Seems I missed something a ways back. Can you please tell me which was the
>> plagiarized work and who the plagiarer is? I no longer have the issue in my
>> possession.
>>
>> Thanx very much,
>>
>> Kurt Youngmann
>> [email protected]
>>
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