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Old 07-30-2007, 04:27 PM   #191
glatt
 
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Originally Posted by Flint View Post
They should do peer review more like a "roast" - if you published sloppy work, you would have to sit there and be humiliated in front of everybody.
That's what happened to the cold fusion dudes in Spring of 1989 in Baltimore.

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The spring meeting of the American Physical Society is normally a cool scientific congregation, but last week's gathering of 1,500 physicists in Baltimore was more like an unusually hot celebrity roast.

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