Frases de Serge Lang

Serge Lang foi matemático estadunidense nascido na França. É conhecido por seu trabalho em teoria dos números e por seus livros de matemática, incluindo o influente Algebra. Foi membro do grupo Bourbaki. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. Maio 1927 – 12. Setembro 2005
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Serge Lang: Frases em inglês

“I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground.”

"HIV and AIDS: Have We Been Misled?; Questions of Scientific and Journalistic Responsibility," http://www.virusmyth.com/aids/hiv/slquestions.htm Yale Scientific (Fall 1994), reprinted in Challenges (Springer, 1997, ISBN 0387948619, p. 70

“I am bothered by the way misinformation is accepted uncritically, and by the way people are unable to recognize it or reject it.”

This is part of Lang's campaign in his attempt to discredit the results of The 1977 survey of the American professoriate published in 1979 by Everett C Ladd and Seymour M Lipsett. In 1981 Lang published The File: Case Study in Correction (1977-1979) which consists of copies of correspondence concerning the survey. In this quote from The File Lang sets out why he fought that campaign.