Re: COMMERCIAL MESSAGES
Doug Ferguson (ferguson@fortnet.org)
Thu, 18 Jul 1996 23:39:24 -0600
FACS_COPY@wehi.edu.au wrote:
>
> Colleagues,
>
> All of us in this business are here both to push back the frontiers of
> human knowledge and to make a buck. The differences among us lie in
> the priorities each of us assigns to the 2 pursuits. Rabid scientific
> purists, who may well be more prevalent in Britain (and Australia),
> would assign a much lower priority to making a buck than would those
> working in the much more commercially oriented environment of the USA
> (or the Sultanate of Oman). This comment should *not* be read as
> vituperative; I simply point out that different cultural attitudes
> arise from different environments and this could explain the different
> points of view already expressed on this subject.
>
> In my opinion, for what it is worth, the moderators of this list
> should *not* wield the big stick; we can all filter the useful from
> the useless ourselves. However, I would point out to all contributors
> that it is far less useful to say "Its in my latest book. Buy it."
> than to quote the information directly (by all means plugging your
> book or CD at the same time), or at least give a reference to a
> scientific journal which is free for all to read.
>
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Thank You!
I must fully agree. Although not on exactly the same wavelength:
It is fundamentally insulting to the intelligence of the readers of this
group to assume that those who read this mail must have 'censored'
mailings. I have no complaint Paul, thanks for the excellent work!
I honestly wish that we could have more open dialogues on a technical
basis concerning the in's and out's at the engineering level of flow
cytometry without being accused of commercialism.
Doug Ferguson
Cytomation.
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