<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Oct 20, 2010, at 2:33 AM, Damien Broderick wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">But if his typing is accepted by Nature or Science or Physical Review Letters, you would have to be extraordinarily gullible to accept such impossible claims just because a handful of nameless referees who also know how to type recommended publication to an equally gullible editor.<br></span></blockquote><br></div><div>As I can not personally repeat all experimental results for verification it all comes down to a matter of trust. I prefer to trust a journal that has an illustrious history, such as publishing Watson and Crick's DNA paper and many more superb articles, rather than a journal I've never heard of claiming ASTOUNDING results, especially one dedicated to a squishy soft "science" like social psychology. </div><div><br></div><div>By the way, I don't understand why you didn't take me up on my bet, it's a easy way for you to make a thousand dollars. If you think my list of 3 journals is too short let me know, I could easily add more journals to the list that I respect. And I will give you another way to win the bet, if Warren Buffett invests in a company started by Bem to cash in on this revolutionary development and potential gold mine before October 20 2011 then you get a thousand dollars, you only have to pay me a hundred dollars if there is no journal paper or start up company investment by that date.</div><div><br></div><div> John K Clark</div><div><br></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><br></div></body></html>