At 03:30 PM 1/17/99 +0100, you wrote: >The Wall Street Journal frequently denounces "junk science." By that they >seem to meen expert testimony that supports seeking damages from some >business. > > Richard Schmalensee, an MIT economist is testifying for Microsoft >in the antitrust trial. The NY Times quoted him Thursday re whether or not >Microsoft has a monopoly in operating systems. He says they don't. ... Only >the worst students internalize this garbage and go on to be professors at >MIT. The irony of this is that not only did Richard S testify at the Microsoft trial but so did Franklin Fischer, who is also an econ. prof. at MIT. Guess what? Fischer said _exactly the opposite of what S. said_: MS is a monopoly. ain't science grand? Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://clawww.lmu.edu/Faculty/JDevine/JDevine.html
