Posted by chemist on May 8, 2004, at 13:25:40
In reply to Re: ethical question raised by a poster » jlbl2l, posted by NikkiT2 on May 8, 2004, at 8:40:02
> I'm not saying that chemist is lying.. but.. this is online.. someone can give any name they want.. I could easily say I am Nicole Kidman, thats my name, hey look it up on the net to see my credentials.. I could easily write a CV that could "prove" I am Nicole Kidman..
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> We have no way to prove that chemist is who he says he is, or I am who I say I am, or anyone else here for that matter..
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> Nikkihi nikki, there is a way to verify that i really am who i say i am: send me an email, then check that my response is not coming from a spoofed IP address. your nicole kidman analogy is apt, but there are more ways to verify that i am indeed the individual i claim to be. you can start with googling my name, then going through my posts and seeing if things are consistent with my alleged background. you could provide to me a post office box address and i can send to you a photocopy of my UT-Austin diploma for my Ph.D. and, finally, i can (and will, as i stated earlier) send to you a PDF of my CV, as well as PDFs of reprints of my publications that are in press. this last bit does weed-out a lot of potential zeros, because as you know, one must have electronic access to the journals in question. but this still doesn't entirely satisfy, because i could be a university employee and assemble the PDFs. but only *i* can send you the real, paper reprints that one has to purchase directly from the publisher. my co-authors could, but that possibility would be eliminated by contacting them and simply stating that you received some mysterious papers and do they know anything about it? all the best, Todd J. Minehardt, Ph.D
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