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Re: Hey Jim M. - One Question
Posted by:
Jim Mazerat (IP Logged)
Date: February 18, 2007 10:30PM
Where do you get this idea from? I have a doctor friend that does research at a local facility. He was amused at your suggestion. He said he dictates his notes and gives it to a person to transcribe. He then reads over it and compares it to the information on the tape. Once he is satisfied the tape is reused. The information in the transcribed document he sends to others to conduct their test to verify his findings. He has published several papers on his topic and never been questioned about the original notes.
If you want to get into what we do being true science I suggest you do some research into the subject. True scientists say it can not be considered true science unless it is verifiable and exactly reproducible. When John does a test on a sample the test is both verifiable and exactly reproducible. The fire scene can never be verified through reproducible testing procedures. NIST did a report on patterns where one of there conclusions was that they could not be reproduced exactly.