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To: nihil who wrote (41330)	6/21/1999 12:49:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

The real art is in determining if the "outliers" are some systematic error in the experiment - or beacons of some to-be-discovered effect. Remember Pons and Fleischman? They had the Outlier Problem writ large. The answer there seems to have been to repeat the experiment many times under many different circumstances by many hands. This acted to limit the inherent subjectivity of such an experiment as possible. The results are perhaps not absolutely conclusive - but the chance that there was something real there are very small and getting smaller. There comes a point at which even the most ardent supporter of a sick pet theory has to throw up his hands in resignation.