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There are no doubt significant differences between Mansfield's case and Mack...
...Arnold S. Relman, a professor emeritus at the Medical School who chaired the ad hoc committee investigating Mack, has argued that the fact that Mack is a scientist means that he must be held to a higher standard...
...science, ideas by themselves aren't enough," Relman wrote in a guest commentary appearing in The Crimson ("The Motivation for the Mack Inquiry," Sep. 13, 1995). "They must ultimately be supported by peer-reviewed evidence, and Dr. Mack failed to meet that expectation...
...fact, Relman argues that the very purpose of the committee was to investigate the fact that Mack "wasn't doing any scientific research on the problem and wasn't being sufficiently objective and detached in his clinical approach to the abductees...
...Relman leaves the door open for the kind of work Mack has done by using the word "ultimately." Mack, in fact, is working in an academic community where, at a certain point in time, ideas are enough. If an academic community isn't a safe haven for nascent, if odd and unconventional, ideas, what...