On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 13:44:59 -0500, Bob LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org> wrote: >Eagle@bellsouth.net (J. Hugh Sullivan) wrote: >>>One of my other incarnations has been as a member of an editorial board for >>>a scientific journal. Even when deling with professionals, with apparently >>>fairly well-enforced professional standards, I've still been saddened by the >>>low standards of research and historical verification by some. It's going to >>>happen, the only thing to do is find work-arounds. >> >>It's going to happen but why must it? I think those people need to be >>embarrassed. > >You make the assumption that they possibly CAN be embarrassed. > >If they don't take the work as seriously as you do, which is almost >certainly the case, they probably can't be. > >lojbab One way or another people who do sloppy, inaccurate work get left behind by those who don't. Hugh