Increase of the Electrical Potential of the Atmosphere with Elevation
ALEXANDER G. MCADIE · Science · 1887
evident opportunities for fraud."Quite true-not i n many only, but in all; and not only in psychical but in physical experiments of all sorts, which people accept without verifying the results for themselves.But whosr fraud ?TVe have always been content to rely on the very large class of cases in which the fraud would have had to be our own,-fraud in which the investigators actively shared, not merely which they failed to detect.I am far from saying that Dr. Minot or any one else is bound to accept this condition as crucial.But it is surely obvlous that he who carries his experiments to the point where they can only be impugned by impugning his good faith, has done -as far as the qualzty of his results is concerued --all that any experir~lenter in any branch of science ever can do.Nothing remains, after this, but to try to increase the q z ~a n t z t y of the results, whereby the responsibility for them may be spread over other shoulders.EDNUND GURNEY.