Re: How Many Scientists' Signatures Do You Need?

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1 total messages Started by flink Tue, 20 Jan 1987 05:43

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Author: flink
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1987 05:43

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kontron!cramer@topaz.rutgers.edu writes:
>(...from what I've read, the assumptions involved are idealized, and
>consistently idealized in a manner that finds for "nuclear winter").

Then you haven't read the *Science* article on the subject.  Many
assumptions were made in a manner that would tend to *underestimate*
the "nuclear winter" effect.  (I think the article I have in mind
came out in the summer of 1984.)

> [...] this entire "group denunciation"
>and "group validation" of public policy issues smacks of politics --
>not science.

So what did you expect in political debate?!  Or do you think that
scientists have no right to participate in politics??!

--love and kisses,
Paul Torek                      flink@mimsy (soon to be torek@umich)
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