From: Kenneth Chang [kchang@nytimes.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 3:17 PM
To: Grant, Paul
Subject: RE: Batlogg

I'm right here. (212) 556-7271

At 06:13 PM 5/23/02, you wrote:
>Are you near a phone now?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Kenneth Chang [mailto:kchang@nytimes.com]
>Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 3:05 PM
>To: Grant, Paul
>Subject: RE: Batlogg
>
>Can I use this?
>
> >The Bell Labs Imbroglio.  Yes, there's been an enormous amount of 
> >buzz for well over a year, with a number of attempts to reproduce the 
> >"results" by several very good labs (I knew that IBM was trying).  
> >Even the "simplest" experiment, that of the quantum Hall effect in a 
> >single crystal buckeyball, has not been reproduced.  Congratulations 
> >for breaking this story.
> >
> >At the March meeting in Indianapolis on the last day there was a talk 
> >by Kloc on the sample growth.  I went and during the question period 
> >directly confronted him as to why the series of results in question 
> >had not been reproduced.  His answer was that nobody had tried...I 
> >said this wasn't
>true,
> >and asked for a show of hands in the audience...about 3 or 4 raised 
> >their hands.  Kloc then said the samples were hard to make...this is 
> >a typical response when something suspicious might be underway.  Why 
> >hadn't samples been given to other institutions for testing?  Answer: 
> >they're unstable...another smoking gun.  And...only a few samples 
> >show any effect...hmmm.
>
>
>
> > From my perspective, I hope
> >1) That Schoen, et al., are right...or
> >2) They've made some egregious, yet forgivable, errors.
>
>Is there any way that either is conceivable?
>
> >If you'd like, I'd be willing to talk on the record about the Bell 
> >Labs story, but Frisbie will have to wait a few more weeks.
>Yup, I want you on the record about Bell Labs. Is there a time & place 
>I can get you on the phone?
>
>Thank you very much.
>--
>Kenneth Chang
>Science reporter
>The New York Times
>(212) 556-7271

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Kenneth Chang
Science reporter
The New York Times
(212) 556-7271