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Ashuwana: a few thoughts:

We always welcome CONSTRUCTIVE ways to run the group better. However your post is not constructive, but scarcastic, destructive and yes, rude.

We who run the group do not get any compensation or reward other than feeling we are doing a service. We're certainly not here to be your punching bag.

If you don't appreciate the group, and don't care to improve the group in a constructive way, why are you here? In the event you were unaware, you can leave at any time.

on 7/13/2006 11:26 AM, ashuwana at ashuwana@... wrote:

Kayce,

What amuses me is how the group description claims:

" We expect all members to respect the views of others and to

maintain a high level of decorum. "

....a high level of decorum....Yes, that amuses me greatly!

As a researcher of Einstein and other genius thinkers, I know that

his criteria for evaluating the value of other people's data did not

include some arbitrary sell-by date, nor did he greet attempts at

helpful dialogue with rudeness and/or veiled condensation.

Perhaps these are ingredients totally unique to modern-day

science...or to CRON. How unfortunate.

In any case, thanks for the 1998 report. I, for one, found it very

helpful.

I'm being rude now, aren't I? Or should I say, " ain't I " ?

Ashuwana

--- In , " kayce cover " <k_cover@...>

wrote:

>

> Hi all,

>

> Francesca,I don't agree that a study is meaningless due to its

age, and I

> don't understand why you chide people on the basis of the age of a

study,

> put perhaps I am missing something here. I would like to see some

discussion

> of the relevance of the age of a study, in scientific research.

>

> My understanding is that sound research is still sound research,

regardless

> of when it is conducted. New research is based on older research,

and the

> relevance of a study is often evaluated in terms of how often, and

for how

> long, it is cited, not just by how new it is.

>

> Many substances have therapeutic thresholds, or other

characteristics, which

> may be determined early in our history of using the substances,

but don't

> subsequently change.