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Science 27 October 2000:
Vol. 290. no. 5492, p. 711
DOI: 10.1126/science.290.5492.711a
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This Week's Letters

Two surveys of scientists and others associated with animal research "suggest that most animal researchers favor [Animal Welfare Act] regulation of mice, rats, and birds." Various ideas are offered about what might have caused the gully-like features recently found on Mars. The author of the 1973 book Stability and Complexity in Model Ecosystems clarifies a major point of his book that has been misinterpreted. And imagine beating Muhammed Ali in his prime in the boxing ring--the probability of that happening (and there is one) illustrates the role of "outrageous events" in calculating statistical significance.

Letters in This Issue

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[Letter] Poll Shows Researchers Favor Lab Animal Protection
Scott Plous and Harold A. Herzog
[Letter] Ideas About the Surface Runoff Features on Mars
Nick Hoffman; L. Paul Knauth, Donald Burt; R. Stephen Saunders and Richard W. Zurek; Peter T. Doran, Steven L. Forman
[Letter] Relation Between Diversity and Stability, in the Real World
Sir Robert M. May
[Letter] Outrageous Events: Don't Count Them Out
William Bishop Fairley


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