On 3/23/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
geni wrote:
On 3/22/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 04:52:09 +1100, you wrote:
Britannica must be struggling. I recently got a letter offering me a free Britannica CD-ROM (basic edition) if I subscribed. I don't think that is a good sign.
I thought that was a pretty old offer? I seem to recall something similar at least five years back. Could be wrong, of course.
I think these days anybody selling access to information is struggling. Too much of it is free.
Journals appear to be doing ok.
And they're not always accurate either, *despite* the peer-review process. Does anyone remember the name of the nanotech researcher who used the same set of results over and over and over again, for about a dozen experiments that he'd supposedly done? I believe that /Nature/ was involved in that one...
I know the case but outright fraud is pretty uncommon. It's when you have an orgin paper with a claimed yield and a note saying that the product was extracted by HPLC you get worried.
-- geni