Re: FYI: Ray Fowler's letter to Tom Delay (a bit long)

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
Hi On Tue, 15 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Given the backpeddling and obvious bend of the APA, why would anyone on this list become or remain a member of such an organization? For the discount on journal prices. Also, because I belong to CPA (C being Canada), I get a discount on my APA

Re: FYI: Ray Fowler's letter to Tom Delay (a bit long)

1999-06-14 Thread Jim Clark
Hi On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, Linda M. Woolf wrote: Jim Clark wrote: Obviously Linda and I need to get a life! Perhaps, someone can operationally define this for me. I clearly am clueless! I was writing very early in the morning (3am or so) on a weekend night and I thought from the date

Re: FYI: Ray Fowler's letter to Tom Delay (a bit long)

1999-06-14 Thread Paul C. Smith
Jim Clark wrote: I'm probably slipping into another topic here, but I think that psychology already does too much filtering of findings. Rejection rates in the natural sciences are much lower than in psychology. Perhaps that just reflects the quality or state of the disciplines, but I think

Re: FYI: Ray Fowler's letter to Tom Delay (a bit long)

1999-06-12 Thread Jim Clark
Hi On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Linda M. Woolf wrote: Jim Clark wrote: For editors of scientific journals to be put in the position of mindguards based on some possible social or political implication of research is not the way to promote a science of psychology. To use just one of Linda's

Re: FYI: Ray Fowler's letter to Tom Delay (a bit long)

1999-06-12 Thread Linda M. Woolf
Hi Y'all, Jim Clark wrote: I agree that these are the issues that scientists, as well as politicians and citizens have had to wrestle with. But these debates are completely independent of the question of the correctness of the underlying scientific ideas. The problem with putting the

FYI: Ray Fowler's letter to Tom Delay (a bit long)

1999-06-11 Thread Jim Guinee
Very interesting: June 9, 1999 The Honorable Tom DeLay Office of the Majority Whip H û 107 U.S. Capitol Washington, DC 20515 Dear Representative DeLay: I want to begin by commending you for your strong personal and professional commitment to the serious problem of child abuse. We

Re: FYI: Ray Fowler's letter to Tom Delay (a bit long)

1999-06-11 Thread Jim Clark
Hi On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Jim Guinee submitted the following letter from Raymond D. Fowler, Ph.D. CEO/Executive VicePresident to June 9, 1999 The Honorable Tom DeLay Office of the Majority Whip We will seek independent expert evaluation of the scientific quality of the article and

Re: FYI: Ray Fowler's letter to Tom Delay (a bit long)

1999-06-11 Thread Jeffrey Nagelbush
Jim Clark responded to the letter below: We will seek independent expert evaluation of the scientific quality of the article and will make those results known. This is unprecedented in the Association’s history of scholarly publishing, but, in view of the criticism of this study by

Re: FYI: Ray Fowler's letter to Tom Delay (a bit long)

1999-06-11 Thread Paul Brandon
Medical journals such as JAMA and NEJM often publish editorials accompanying articles that they feel require such commentary. I was not aware that the AMA (apart from its journals) took the sort of action that is described below. At 10:28 AM -0700 6/11/99, Jeffrey Nagelbush wrote: Jim Clark

Re: FYI: Ray Fowler's letter to Tom Delay (a bit long)

1999-06-11 Thread Linda M. Woolf
Hi Tipsters, Jim Clark wrote: This too is an anti-scientific proposal. Articles should not be accepted or rejected in scientific journals because of being controversial (sounds like an invitation to submit inocuous material) or because of some imagined policy implications. I wonder what

Re: FYI: Ray Fowler's letter to Tom Delay (a bit long)

1999-06-11 Thread Jim Clark
Hi On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Linda M. Woolf wrote: Jim Clark wrote: This too is an anti-scientific proposal. Articles should not be accepted or rejected in scientific journals because of being controversial (sounds like an invitation to submit inocuous material) or because of some imagined

Re: FYI: Ray Fowler's letter to Tom Delay (a bit long)

1999-06-11 Thread Anonymous
Hi On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Jeffrey Nagelbush wrote: Jim Clark responded to the letter below: We will seek independent expert evaluation of the scientific quality of the article and will make those results known. This is unprecedented in the Association’s history of scholarly

Re: FYI: Ray Fowler's letter to Tom Delay (a bit long)

1999-06-11 Thread Linda M. Woolf
Hi Y'all! Jim Clark wrote: For editors of scientific journals to be put in the position of mindguards based on some possible social or political implication of research is not the way to promote a science of psychology. To use just one of Linda's examples, what is being proposed by APA is