--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "hugheshugo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > > > > (Hugheshugo, I suspect, is simply misinformed.) > > > Do you ever wonder why people don't like you? > > > > > The Ig Nobel Awards are not what either Vaj or Hugheshugo > > claim they are. > > My "claim" was a quote from their website; > > "The Ig Nobel Ceremony, now in its fourth year, honors people whose > achievements cannot or should not be reproduced. Beginning with this > year's ceremony on October 6, the Ig Nobels will be produced jointly > by The MIT Museum and The Annals of Improbable Research." > > Apology to the usual address please.
I can find all sorts of quotes on all sorts of websites. However, the website CURRENTLY says: http://www.improb.com/ig/ The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think. The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative -- and spur people's interest in science, medicine, and technology. > > > > They would both benefit from reading this > > essay by Abrams, which is well thought out and much more > > faithful to the spirit of scientific research than either > > of them are. > > Oh sure Judy I'm not faithful to the spirit of science because I > don't agree with you about the ME. Let me correct you on that, I love > science, I always have, I get New Scientist magazine every week, my > bookshelves groan under the weight of books on quantum physics, > astronomy, paleontology. I wish there was more time to learn it all. > When my family got a video recorder my first choice to tape > was "Horizon" I love reading about new ideas, I have friends who are > physicists who keep me up to date, I'm on the edge of my seat about > the big switch-on at CERN this summer. Biased? no I don't think so. > > Regarding J Hagelins Ig nobel victory, I found this on the Igs follow- > up page; > > 1994-07-03 Ig Nobel Peace Prize: Follow-up Investigation > > Robert L. Park of the American Physical Society (APS) has done a > follow-up investigation of the work which earned John Hagelin this > year's Ig Nobel Peace Prize. Park's report appeared in his weekly > APS newsletter, "WHAT'S NEW." It reads in part: > > "The [1994 Ig Nobel] Peace Prize went to physicist John Hagelin > for his experiment to reduce crime in Washington, DC by the > coherent meditation of 4,000 TM [Transcendental Meditation] > experts. By coincidence, Hagelin was holding a press conference > [on the day of the Ig Nobel Ceremony] to announce his final > results. It was a data analysis clinic; violent crime, he proudly > declared, decreased 18%! Relative to what? To the predictions of > "time-series analysis" involving variables such as temperature and > the economy. So although the weekly murder count hit the highest > level ever recorded, it was less than predicted." > > > > Here is a more detailed version. > > http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2843/is_5_24/ai_67691836 > > After reading all I can find on the subject I have to conclude that > the laws of physics are safe, if you ever find anything to the > contrary, other than your own prejudice of course, let us know. > Did you ever read what Hagelin and company said in response to Park's remarks? Science is all about discussion to discover the truth. When you stop looking after finding something you agree with, you're no longer part of the scientific debate. Lawson
