Goshawk
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I think she's perfectly legit, and not a hoax. Her general posting style and mindset is immediately recognizable to me from many misspent hours on various tinfoil hat conspiracy theory forums (URLs available upon PM request, no sense slashdotting them). And yeah, they all really hate Randi, as well as the Bad Astronomer. The defensive vitriol--the blathering, shrill paranoia--driving it all is familiar.
And, if anyone else wondered what "the Belmont Rules" are that Kramer has supposedly violated...The Belmont Report: Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research , which says, basically, you have to tell research subjects what they're signing up for, and you can't put their names in the paper.
And, if anyone else wondered what "the Belmont Rules" are that Kramer has supposedly violated...The Belmont Report: Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research , which says, basically, you have to tell research subjects what they're signing up for, and you can't put their names in the paper.