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Re. Can journals monopolize science?

Marc Roussel mroussel at alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca
Sun May 30 20:39:20 EST 1993


In article <C7urtG.1Cw at ncifcrf.gov> toms at fcsparc6.ncifcrf.gov (Tom Schneider)
writes:
>Reviewers also don't know basic science these days.  In
>one case a reviewer didn't know a simple definition of a 'bit' - in this age of
>computers, no less - and another didn't know the second law of thermo even
>though they claim to be a physicist!
[...]
>ps: the second law is expressed as dS>=dq/T.

     Actually, that's the Clausius inequality, not the second law :-).

				Marc R. Roussel
                                mroussel at alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca



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