American Scientist Forum (fwd)

[Peter Rauch]

[Taxacom Ed. note: I am forwarding (cross-posting) the following to
Taxacom with the consent of the author.  PAR]

Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 13:05:43 -0400
From: Bill Shear <BILLS at HSC.EDU>
To: PEET-L Partnerships for Enhancing Expertise in Taxonomy

Dear Fellow PEETsters,

AMERICAN SCIENTIST magazine, the publication of Sigma Xi (which most of you
are no doubt familiar with) recently published a controversial article by
Steve Vogel of Duke University on "Academically Correct Biology."  If you
don't subscribe to AS, the article (which is quite short) can be viewed and
read at: http://www.amsci.org/amsci/Issues/macroscope/macroscope98-11.html

The editors of AS have asked me to moderate an internet forum based on this
article.  The forum works just like a regular mailing list.  If you want to
participate, you subscribe, and then you may post any comments.  You will
also get the comments of all other members of the forum, admittedly
filtered through me as moderator to screen out wild political material,
obscenities, religious diatribes and all the other things biolgists are
prone to indulge in.  Seriously, most postings will go through completely
unaltered, checked only for repetetiveness, excessive length, and adherence
to the fundamental rules of courtesy.

If you'd like to join the forum, you can sign up at:
http://www.amsci.org/amsci/editors/forum.html  This will access a page that
will in turn send you to the signup process.

The discussion archives will be available at:
http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/november-forum.html.

Please join us with your own unique response to this provocative article!

Bill Shear
Department of Biology
Hampden-Sydney College
Hampden-Sydney VA 23943
(804)223-6172
FAX (804)223-6374
email<bills at hsc.edu>