Re: [ccp4bb] Problem in real space - please sign & invite other scientists to sign this letter

2019-08-21 Thread David Briggs
Dear Daniel, I could not disagree with you more. As scientists it falls to us to support our colleagues (from whatever other discipline) when they provide evidence that has profound ramifications for humanity. Would we hesitate to stand by colleagues who (for example) demonstrate the efficacy

Re: [ccp4bb] Problem in real space - please sign & invite other scientists to sign this letter

2019-08-20 Thread Edwin Pozharski
Dear Daniel, with all due respect, I do believe that you are making several mistakes in your argument. English is not my native tongue, but I suspect that there is a substantial difference between "author" and "signatory". What people are asked to do here is essentially to sign a petition, not

Re: [ccp4bb] Problem in real space - please sign & invite other scientists to sign this letter

2019-08-20 Thread Dale Tronrud
Dear Dr Himmel, I certainly agree that a scientist getting into the nitty-gritty of a field outside of their training can make quite silly mistakes. The link you have provided to us makes an excellent example of your point. Dr Akasofu is a trained space scientist who studied the aurora

[ccp4bb] RES: [ccp4bb] Problem in real space - please sign & invite other scientists to sign this letter

2019-08-20 Thread Rafael Marques
Dear Daniel. I really understand your point of view and I must say that I agree with it, at certain extent. Science is all about evidence and not what we (sometimes) want to see or want to believe. You are completely right when you say that, inside academia, evidence should be always discussed

Re: [ccp4bb] [EXTERNAL] Re: [ccp4bb] Problem in real space - please sign & invite other scientists to sign this letter

2019-08-20 Thread Edward A. Berry
Sorry- Richard Muller (How could I get that wrong?!) To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB=1

Re: [ccp4bb] [EXTERNAL] Re: [ccp4bb] Problem in real space - please sign & invite other scientists to sign this letter

2019-08-20 Thread Edward A. Berry
Agreed. I support green new deal and I think we should be doing all we can to combat climate change, not because I have studied it and concluded it is a problem but because some very smart people have, and have come to that conclusion. But I would not sign a letter saying that I have

Re: [ccp4bb] Problem in real space - please sign & invite other scientists to sign this letter

2019-08-20 Thread Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D.
Dear colleagues, Since when does being a structural biologist make us experts in climatology, and isn't it a breach of basic ethical practice and professionalism as scientists to sign on as authors to an article for which we have neither contributed research nor intellectual content of the

Re: [ccp4bb] Problem in real space - please sign & invite other scientists to sign this letter

2019-08-20 Thread Casadei Cecilia (PSI)
Dear Wim, thank you for this very good initiative. Kind regards, Cecilia __ Paul Scherrer Institut Dr. Cecilia Casadei Laboratory of Biomolecular Research OFLC/104 5232 Villigen PSI Schweiz E-Mail: cecilia.casa...@psi.ch From: CCP4 bulletin board

[ccp4bb] Problem in real space - please sign & invite other scientists to sign this letter

2019-08-20 Thread Wim Burmeister
Hello, I transmit this initiative for those who feel that there is also life outside reciprocal space and and not only scientist in specialist disciplines have a responsibility in real space. The graphs in the paper mentioned