[MLUG - DISCUSSION] more about the Slater book

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Remember my complaints about a highly-inaccurate book full of lies and
fabrications?  I was reviewing it on Amazon.com.  There have been a few
newspaper articles since then and I have put those together with some
letters written by people who were quoted in the book.  If interested, you
can check it out here:

http://taxa.epi.umn.edu/slater/

I would say that these two articles are most useful:

http://taxa.epi.umn.edu/slater/news/20040402_Times_London.html
http://taxa.epi.umn.edu/slater/news/20040312_Guardian_Buzan.html

The book also made it into Snopes.com urban legend pages:

http://www.snopes.com/science/skinner.asp

The last few paragraphs are about the book.

I was interviewed by a reporter from NY Times today.  They are looking
into this too.  They were a bit slow, if you ask me.  Maybe that's because
Slater was doing some work for them! (I think she did an OK job for NY
Times - maybe because they have fact checkers there and she knew better
than to try to pull a Jayson Blair on them.)

Mike
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