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IOP: I hate it when they do that

stoat | March 5, 2010

The ever-vigilant BigCityLib has spotted some revisionism by the Institute of Physics: they have silently updated their "clarification": the link http://www.iop.org/News/news_40679.html now points to a statement dated 5th March, instead of the original, which was 2nd march. What a bunch of slimy little toads: they pretend to believe in openness, they won't tell us who wrote their statements, then they silently airbrush out embarassing words afterwards. Refers: Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes and The IOP fiasco. This post doesn't analyse the changes; as far as I can see they have…

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