[Air-L] Public/ Private

[George Floros]

Jeremy stated
> luckily, in science, it doesn't matter if I or you are conscientious,  
> what matters is that we publish and share our findings.  over time,  
> those findings will either be used and shown useful or not, or  
> forgotten.
> most research on human behaviour is  
> only reproducible in the abstract and then likely only in statistical  
> relations.   reproducibility as such is not what makes something  
> science or scientific, or even worthwhile.  in fact, i'd argue that  
> finding a reproducible thing... most of the time has nothing to do  
> with science per se, but quite alot more to do with organizational  
> theory, but that's a whole other set of arguments.
well then we'll leave at this ;  I got a deja-vu feeling from this 
dialogue, it's eerily reminiscent of the clash between the viewpoints of 
the 70's and 90's in psychiatric research.
I considered some points self-evident because of the historical outcome 
in my field but I suppose other viewpoints can be useful as well in 
other fields. I don't have this option where I stand. Nor would I like 
using this line of thought, come to think of it.

George