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Az Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-30-05 04:24 PM
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222. One does not join groups dedicated to probing closed cases
unless one wishes to overturn the case. The desire is to refute the existing conclusion. A perfectly natural desire in scientific communities. But it is problematic in that such groups create stovepipe situations where they all start barking up the same tree and seeing similar phantoms. This is why peer review in the general community is required. Its why some thought they had cold fusion down only to find no one else could reproduce it. Peer review is vital to catch such natural errors.
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