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Carlson traces his real science education to his grandfather, a serious amateur investigator who accumulated mountains of rejection slips from scientific journals...
...links professional scientists with amateurs interested in helping with research projects, provides advice and assistance to amateur investigators, and publishes a magazine with experimental how-to advice...
...Carlson's grandfather made his first and only appearance in the scientific literature when C. L. Strong, then the author of the Amateur Scientist column, based a column on his experiments with plant growth under conditions of abnormal gravity...
Carlson has just finished compiling a compact disk with all of the Amateur Scientist columns that have been written since the inception of the series as "The Backyard Astronomer" in 1928. He estimates that he sells 20 copies a day by mail order, and predicts an enormous expansion in sales when the product is picked up by the Ingram Book Group, a major distributor, later this year...
Carlson says that while there are many smart and serious amateur scientists in America, there are just as many crazy people with delusions of scientific greatness...