[escepticos] CARTA: Versión final y firmas hasta ahora

["A. Torres" <torresad@...>]

Os reproduzco la versión final de la carta que será enviada mañana, 
junto con todas las firmas recogidas hasta el momento.

Los que ya hayáis firmado, aseguraos de seguir estando de acuerdo con lo 
que firmáis, por favor.

Podéis seguir añadiéndoos a la lista hasta mañana por la tarde. También 
podéis solicitar vuestra retirada de la lista hasta el mismo momento. 
Idem con modificaciones de nombre o título y corrección de errores de la 
que suscribe, esta que la es.

Hale, a leer:

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To: editors en sciam.com <mailto:editors en sciam.com>

Cc: valderas en investigacionyciencia.es 
<mailto:valderas en investigacionyciencia.es>

precisa en investigacionyciencia.es <mailto:precisa en investigacionyciencia.es>

Sir —

In the September 2003 issue of the Spanish edition of Scientific 
American ("Investigación y Ciencia") there is an article titled 
"Estimulación de la germinación y el crecimiento por exposición a campos 
magnéticos" ("Stimulation of germination and growth by exposure to 
magnetic fields",) signed by Elvira Martínez, Mª Victoria Carbonell and 
Mercedes Flórez, which happens to be the most flagrant show of 
pseudoscience we have seen in a long time. It was a sad shock finding it 
in your otherwise excellent publication.

The article states that the physical and chemical properties of water 
change significantly by its exposure to a magnetic field (pp. 26, 28). 
This statement is, as best, on shaky scientific grounds; no conclusive 
results have been published on this issue, and yet, it is used as a 
valid premise for some of the experiments, rendering them scientifically 
unsound. It would be tedious to enumerate and analyze all the other 
flaws in the article in this letter, so we offer this one example as a 
sample of what you can find in it.

Scientific American, and its sister, "Investigación y Ciencia", are 
wonderful tools to approach science to a non-specialized public, and 
it's therefore even more distressing to find out that the Spanish 
edition standards for accepting articles have fallen so much below the 
bare minimum required to offer an honest, thorough view of the research 
panorama in Spain and around the world.

We have contacted the Spanish editors, but have not received a 
satisfactory answer. We turn to you in the hope that such a slip will be 
avoided in the future, allowing us to keep on enjoying your excellent 
magazine, as we have been doing for so many years.

Respectfully,

Adela Torres - Molecular Biologist

Luis Alfonso Gámez - Journalist

José Mª Bello - Archaeologist

Javier Armentia - Astrophysicist

Manuel López - Computer Engineer

Inés Rodríguez - Astrophysicist

Eloy Anguiano Rey - Physics PhD

Alfredo Reino Romero - Engineer

Juan Ángel Camacho

Rubén Villoria - Infographist

Javier de la Torre Cubillo - Computer Engineer

Manuel de Frutos Martín - Computer Engineer

Josep Català - Biology PhD, Chemical Engineer

Fernando Gimeno - Engineer,  University of Zaragoza

Fernando L. Frías Sánchez - Lawyer

Jesús Cancillo Salas - M.D.,  University of Alicante.

Miguel Angel Martínez Estremera - Chemist

Francisco Ceprián Gómez - Senior student (Chemistry)

Julio Plaza del Olmo - Physicist

Arturo Ríos - Basque Government Administration

Xosé Castro Roig - Translator

Ignacio Planas Beamonte - Programmer

Carlos Lobo Cartón - Industrial Engineer

Felipe Martínez - Biologist 

Antonio Almagro - High School Teacher

Enrique Reyes - Physicist

Antonio Rodríguez Sierra - Environmental Biologist

Rodolfo del Moral - Physicist

Miguel Navarro Máñez - Lawyer

Pau García i Quilés - Telecommunications Engineer

Oscar Vives - Computer Arts

Lluís Pérez Lozano - Sociology Student

Ernesto Carmena Riesco - Biologist

Jacobo Tarrío Barreiro - Computer Engineer

Ramón Ordiales Plaza - Computer Engineer

Ramón Cárceles - Technical Engineer

J. Vicente Prieto González - Biologist

Teresa González de la Fe - Sociology Professor, University of La Laguna

Joan Soler Enfedaque - Train Conductor

Gaëlle Bello Hellegouarch - Biology freshman

Francisco Perfectti - Geneticist

Ferrán Tarrasa - PhD, Industrial Engineering Nuclear Plant Ascó-Vandellòs

Carlos Domínguez - Psychologist

Ricardo Mellid – Physicist

Pablo Velasco Pazos - Biologist

Oscar David Sanchez Jimenez - Engineering Grad Student

Jordi Mur-Petit - Physics PhD student (U. Barcelona)

María José Ferrando - Telecommunications Engineer

Saúl Blanco Lanza - Biologist

Jordi Raya Lapuente - Historian & Computer Technician

Germán Salvador García-Cano - Programmer

Juan Rodriguez - Geologist. Geological Survey of Spain

José María Mateo - Telecommunications Engineer

Jorge Gutierrez - IT Consultant

Xavier Nieto - Senior in Computer Engineering

Clarisa Doval - Industrial Engineer

Luis Blanco - Vocational Training Teacher

David García Polo - Telecommunications student

Elisenda Font Campdelacreu - Mathematician

Jose L. Cebollada - Physics and Chemistry High School Teacher

JMª Soler Insa - M.D., Neurologist

Sergio López Borgoñoz - Manager Of "Antares, Comunicación Audiovisual"

José Álvarez Castro – Historian

M. Dolores Moyano Guerrero – Computer Engineer

Ángel Luengo – IyC Reader

José Vicente Arlandis Ortolá – High School Mathematics Teacher

Oswaldo Palenzuela – Biologist, Research Scientist (CSIC)

Jorge Javier Frías Perles – Computer Science Teacher

Borja Marcos – Computer Security Consultant

Juan Ángel Camacho – Computer technician and illusionist

Víctor Martínez Serrano – Business School Student

David De Lorenzo – PhD, Biology Assistant Professor, University of Munich

Santiago Egido Arteaga – Mathematician, Visiting Professor at UPC

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Adela Torres
OSU, Corvallis, OR
USA
http://daurmith.blogalia.com