From: caroll@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Carol Lepzelter)
Subject: Fwd: update on New Newsletter
Organization: NCSA
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 19:30:20 GMT

I thought this note, which I read in sci.geo.geology, might be of interest 
to the subscribers of talk.origins. I hope the smiley was ommited by 
accident for the original posting.....
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Dear People,

Many of you have responded with concern to my note about the 
new science newsletter which is being edited by an old friend of my 
family's .  Your concern was that I did not/would not mention who this
friend was.  This is a valid concern, and my reason for not stating
his name at the time was that I did not, at that point, have his
permission.  I do now, however, have that permission..so...here is the
information again, including names.

If you would like to recieve a copy of the first edition [which will
not obligate you to subscribe], please send me your full postal
mailing address.

Here is the information:

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Dr. Gian-Carlo Rota, Prof. of Math at MIT, has sent me the following
information regarding a start-up newsletter dealing with "truth in
science and technology."  His involvement with this publication is as
Editor-in-Chief, and of the newsletter he says:
  
The newsletter will be a "truth in science and technology" 
publication.  It will concern itself with an art which, in 
our opinion, is well on the way to becoming extinct -- 
namely, telling the truth.  It will consist of short news 
items concerning advances (or regresses) in science and technology, 
the kind of items that such publications as "Science" and "Nature" 
would not consider publishing, either because they are too
controversial, or because they deal with some unpleasant truth.  
The latter occurance is much more common nowadays.
 
We believe we can establish a network of informants who will 
contribute, either anonymously or under a pseudonym, or under 
their own names (which we would _prefer_) hot news items ranging over 
the entire spectrum of today's culture, with special emphasis on 
science and technology.  Some typical news items might be: an 
expose of neural networks as multivariate statistical analysis 
under a new name; a list of the increasingly baffling discoveries 
that ill-match the Darwinian theory of evolution (as it is 
understood today), and statistical evidence proving that African
witchcraft has been a more effective psychiatric cure than Freudian
psychoanalysis.
  
I have gone as far as securing a certain amount of funding 
for the newsletter in the form of venture capital.  After discussions
with the board which is considering the funding of the newsletter, 
it has been decided that such funding will be contingent upon our 
being able to put together a credible mailing list for the first 
few issues.  The financial success of "State of the Art" hinges on our
being able to develop such a list.
  
Looking forward to hearing from you, I am with best regards,
  
Gian-Carlo Rota

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