ISEN-ASTC-L is a service of the Association of Science-Technology Centers Incorporated, a worldwide network of science museums and related institutions. ***************************************************************************** I can't really judge from this article how serious the "minor misconducts" were, but food for thought: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050608/ap_on_sc/misbehaving_scientists <http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050608/ap_on_sc/misbehaving_scientists> Jonah Cohen Outreach & Public Programs Manager Science Center of Connecticut "Everybody knows the end products of scientific investigation because everybody uses them, but few know the stages by which these end products have developed. Many see only what is on top. They accept, for example, the blessings of our knowledge of germs as the chief source of disease; they use a large variety of chemical compounds without knowing the meaning of chemistry; they admire skyscrapers, great bridges and other complicated structures not knowing how Galilieo laid the firm foundation of the laws of forces without which these structures could not be safely erected. There are millions of otherwise intelligent people whose outlook on the world is essentially that of the Middle Ages. A large number confuse science and pseudo-science and are easy game for all kinds of quackery purporting to cure bodily ills. The people of a sovereign state attempt to settle by referendum the question of whether man is a product of organic evolution; for them to attempt a popular verdict on the Einstein theory would be no less absurd." -Scientific American, July, 1929 *********************************************************************** More information about the Informal Science Education Network and the Association of Science-Technology Centers may be found at http://www.astc.org. To remove your e-mail address from the ISEN-ASTC-L list, send the message SIGNOFF ISEN-ASTC-L in the BODY of a message to [log in to unmask]