--- Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Deborah Harrell wrote: > >--- The Fool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quoted: > >http://archive.nytimes.com/2003/03/28/opinion/28KRUG.html > > > > > > Delusions of Power > ><snip> >>>So the task force was subject to what military > > > types call "incestuous amplification," defined > by Jane's Defense Weekly > > > as "a condition in warfare where one only > listens to those who are > > > already in lock-step agreement, reinforcing set > > > beliefs and creating a > > > situation ripe for miscalculation." > ><snip> > > > >What an illustrative phrase: "incestuous > >amplification." That applies in almost any field, > >I think; certainly medicine is not immune. > > > > Astrophysics, either. > > My advisor came up with the term "manic solipsism" > to describe the > phenomenon he had noted of some researchers > referring in their papers to > only the select subset of the literature which > supported their own conclusions.
That's a nice term, too <grin> - maybe your advisor should write up a paper describing the phenomenon; I'll bet some sociobiology journal would publish it <serious>. Debbi __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
