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To: patton

What's OR 681?


5 posted on 12/05/2006 8:40:25 PM PST by neverdem (May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
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To: neverdem
It is a PhD course on how to write a thesis, taught through the Math Dept at GMU, buy a guy who is a prof in both the Math Dept and the GMU law school.

In other words, is is one crazy class, emphasizing the differences between scientists and lawyers. The prof uses case law to illustrate really bad science.

7 posted on 12/05/2006 8:44:25 PM PST by patton (Sanctimony frequently reaps its own reward.)
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To: neverdem

The problem is that there are a lot of scientists who want to feed at the trough of government funding and lawyers who want to persuade illiterate juries. They confuse what scientists say with hard scientific fact established by actually studying the methodology and data.


13 posted on 12/05/2006 8:53:34 PM PST by ClaireSolt (Have you have gotten mixed up in a mish-masher?)
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