Quoting "McShane, William J." <[log in to unmask]>:

> Very Good! Straight lines are hard to argue with, as my old research
> advisor would say.
>
> William J. McShane, PhD

Ha! Tell that to the global change sceptics.

My old nuclear physics professor would also say (in a heavy German accent): "My model is correct. Please do not be fooled by your observations."

And this one from my postdoctoral advisor: "The best way to avoid statistics is to take only one measurement."

Happy Friday. J.

--
"[...] more than half the banana genome is shared with humans (a fact more
evident among some of my acquaintances than others)"  - Sir Robert May

Dr. Johan Schijf
Assistant Professor, Aquatic Environmental Geochemistry
UMCES/Chesapeake Biological Laboratory
P.O. Box 38, 1 Williams Street
Solomons, MD 20688-0038
Tel. (410) 326-7387 (office) 7392 (lab)
Fax (410) 326-7341
e-mail: [log in to unmask]