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I read the links in your #74, but they don't address the controversy.

Far as I can see the evidence of what material is there pretty much speaks for itself in refuting claims the publication attempted to present its self as being from NAS. I don't see it despite the citing of Seitz having been a "Past President, National Academy of Sciences" certainly makes no such claim. And certainly the posted article of this thread made no such claim.

The material clearly identifies itself as being under the ospices of OISM, and not NAS as detracters would have folks believe.

The Article clearly identifies itself as a review of reseach literature, not a study in itself and makes no claim or cite of having been a reprint of anything published in any journal as anything that had been published would. So the claim that it makes pretense of being published in a peer reviewed journal or anywhere for that matter is a rather lame characterisation.

In short it would appear the detractors have created a rather clever strawman to knock, more than any valid criticism of the petition or its supporting material or sponsor.

Thanks.

The PDF of the OISM article, as provided by OISM, doesn't identify OISM as the publisher. Rather, it pairs two authors with OISM, two authors with the George C. Marshall Institute, and lists no publisher.

As to format similarity with NAS, I can't comment.

It does not identify itself directly with NAS, but then its Sourcewatch detractors didn't claim that.

So the issue for me remains, did the signers of the petition think of the article as a publication of NAS, or another peer-reviewed publication?

Would they expect a past president of NAS to endorse a non-peer-reviewed article? I don't know the culture.

OISM doesn't address this point, but then again I don't know if its detractors really tackle it either.

Have the detractors sent out their own mailing to the OISM petitioners and queried them to resolve this? I don't think so.

Straw man or fast one? I don't know.

Did the authors of the OISM article attempt publication in a peer-reviewed journal? If not, why not?