Word: relman
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...surprisingly, conventional researchers see this as dancing away from the question. "Weil wants you to believe that you don't need the scientific approach, that you don't need to demand evidence," says Dr. Arnold Relman, former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine and emeritus professor at Harvard Medical School. "I resent well-educated people exploiting irrational elements in our culture, and that's what he's doing...
...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...
...Relman also points out the Mack "hadn't published evidence in the scientific literature or in any scholarly books." But as Mack's lawyer Roderick MacLeish correctly argues, "John has the right as a faculty member to choose the medium through which he wishes to communicate his work...