Re: [Phys-l] Check your source!

["LaMontagne, Bob" <RLAMONT@providence.edu>]

This is it? You can't argue with the content of the letter, because as
Rick has pointed out, it is benign, so you then go to innuendo?
Shameful!

The person addressed has not even presented a critique, but you're going
to give a pre-emptive strike on his credentials and integrity just on
the chance that he MIGHT give a viewpoint that doesn't mesh with the
orthodoxy in vogue.

Bob at PC

> -----Original Message-----
> From: phys-l-bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu [mailto:phys-l-
> bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu] On Behalf Of John Clement
> Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 8:09 PM
> To: 'Forum for Physics Educators'
> Subject: Re: [Phys-l] Check your source!
>
> > > > > .... you should look into the original letter. There
> > > > > is one available at
> > > > >  <http://www.met.tamu.edu/people/faculty/dessler/AEIscan.pdf>.
> > > > > Leigh
> > > >
> > > > One or two folks may have had a web error message due
> > > >  to the URL break, despite Leigh's careful bracketing.
> The letter is addressed to Steve Schroeder at the department of
> atmospheric
> sciences, but further checking revealed there is no professor in the
> department by that name.  The letter was posted by Prof. Andrew
Dessler.
> Steve Schroeder is listed under research staff, but not under faculty.
> Schroeder is listed with no bio. and no further information given.
>
> Now why was a junior person who is research staff but not faculty
offered
> big bucks for writing the article?  Why didn't they offer it to a well
> known
> researcher who is on the faculty??