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- From: Jym Dyer <jym@mica.berkeley.edu>
- Newsgroups: sci.energy,talk.environment
- Subject: Greenpeace Research
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 11:38:26 GMT
- Organization: The Naughty Peahen Party Line
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- Message-ID: <Jym.25Jan1993.0338@naughty-peahen>
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- > I really don't know why anyone would consider Greenpeace
- > press releases and research to be any less biased than
- > R. J. Reynolds studies that show cigarettes are safe.
-
- =o= First off, let's separate the apples and oranges: Press
- releases and research are entirely different beasts. You seem
- to be talking about the research here, not the press releases.
-
- =o= It is folly to believe that *any* research is going to be
- free from bias, especially from the bias of the funders of that
- research. All research should be looked at with a critical eye,
- and compared with similar research.
-
- =o= We know that R. J. Reynolds studies are wrong because their
- conclusions can't be reproduced by other researchers, not just
- because it's conducted by R. J. Reynolds.
-
- =o= Likewise, it cannot be assumed that Greenpeace studies are
- wrong because they're conducted by Greenpeace. Such a thing
- would need to be shown by comparing their studies with those
- of other researchers.
-
- > It then commissions studies and research to prove its
- > conclusions.
-
- =o= You have provided no evidence for that claim.
- <_Jym_>
-