A query...

[Mark P. Line]

Alexander Gross2 wrote:
> It may well be that I am a bit overwraught about this, but I am curious
> to learn if anyone here besides myself detected any similarity, however
> remote, between an article in yesterday's New York Times Sunday Magazine
> and the field of Linguistics.


Not really. I think it's still pretty easy to have a career in linguistics
without reference to any kind of data, fabricated or otherwise.

On a more cheery note, I have no evidence that the peer review system is
not just as broken in linguistics as it seems to be in other fields.


-- Mark

Mark P. Line
Polymathix
San Antonio, TX





> In case you missed it, you'll find the article at:
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/22/magazine/22sciencefraud.html?pagewanted=all
>
> with best wishes and apologies in advance,
>
> alex
>
>