cc: schlesin@atmos.uiuc.edu, rabryson@wisc.edu, coakley@coas.oregonstate.edu, charlson@chem.washington.edu, "Stephen Schwartz" <ses@bnl.gov>, wigley@ncar.ucar.edu, rodhe@misu.su.se, Joyce Penner <penner@umich.edu>
date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 21:09:46 -0500
from: Michael Schlesinger <schlesin@atmos.uiuc.edu>
subject: A recommendation
to: jfein@nsf.gov

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Jay:

I recommend that NSF, perhaps together with AAAS and/or NAS/NRC, 
establish a "Truth in Attribution Office" whose purpose would be to 
establish provenance in scientific discovery.

This "Truth Squad" would determine the lineage of scientific 
discoveries such that erroneous attribution, as that manifest in 
tonight's "Global Dimming" program, would be minimized, if not 
eliminated all together.

Enough erroneous attribution is enough.

It is time to bring science to the attribution of scientific discoveries.

Regards,

Michael
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