Re: Spirit Pond, Maine

From: Eric Stevens (eric.stevens_at_sum.co.nz)
Date: 10/19/04

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    On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 05:38:48 -0400, "Steve Marcus"
    <smarcus_spamout_@cox.net> wrote:

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    >"Michael Zalar" <m_zalar@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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    >> "Steve Marcus" <smarcus_spamout_@cox.net> wrote in message
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    >> I dont believe that Vikings... was peer reviewed. Certainly there
    >> were numerous errors in the text regarding the KRS, which were later
    >> admitted (and in some few instances corrected.)
    >
    >Nonsense. The scholars listed in the book authored articlesthat they simply
    >made stuff up, and the Smithsonian published it all without checking any of
    >it through a peer review process.

    So - you are merely 'presuming' that 'Vikings, The North Atlantic
    Saga' was peer reviewed.

    >
    >You seem to think that peer review means "error free." I don't, and no one
    >else does either.

    One should not expect peer reviewed articles to be gratuitously wrong.
    Nor should one accept gratuitously wrong articles as being peer
    reviewed without evidence that they were peer reviewed.

    Eric Stevens

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