Subject:  Re Cell-phone enquiry in Canada...... (fwd)
Date:     Fri, 7 Aug 1998 163111 -0500 (CDT)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To:       emfguru@hotmail.com
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........Peter, what does one do when the "peer review" process
is contaminated????........guru........

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Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1998 14:11:56 -0600
From: "Bill P. Curry" 
To: "Roy L. Beavers" 
Subject: Re: Cell-phone enquiry in Canada......

Roy, 
	I recommend that you invite Wolfgang Scherer to comment on whether any of the
listed Canadian Scientists have ties to the telecommunications industry.  May
I ask, however, that you and others on the list realize that you can't very
well expect to find experts trained in a given area if they haven't been
funded by some organization in their training and/or research. 	
	I have never worked in any of the fields directly associated with this list,
but I have worked for government laboratories, private companies, and
educational institutions.  Does this disqualify me from stating my semi-expert
opinion on matters of ineterest to this list?  Prior to the War, the British
had a system in which "talented amateurs" (a phrase I picked up from a former
boss) were allowed to pursue science through funding by wealthy patrons.  In
our country, this system was replaced by government agencies as being the
closest to patrons without particular points of view.  Of course, one never
finds a completely disinterested research sponsor - so recognize that if
scientific progress is to be made, it must be done in an atmosphere which
tries to assure the validity of the results, regardless of the points of view
of the sponsors and participants.  The peer review system is the only
institution that I know of which can approach assuring an objective evaluation
of the results of science.
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