on 12/9/2002 Bernard Lang, INTERNET:bernard.l...@inria.fr wrote: > why not erase all historical mistakes from the history books ... so > that we can learn only how thing should go, and not how they can go > wrong.
When is a mistake not wrong? For example, Speaker Newt Gingrich took the Weberian position, in demanding a new vision from the House Science Committee, that the science bureaucracy is more interested in the process than in getting results.* Such accuracy was politically incorrect and the text was soon stricken. The House Science committee proceeded with business as usual. Was he wrong or simply mistaken? Best wishes, Albert Henderson Former Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY 1994-2000 <70244.1...@compuserve.com> *(Oct. 23, 1997) briefly found at: [http://www.house.gov/science/gingrich_10_23.htm]