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The problem is they cannot be duplicated, they are gone and were not  
duplicated. We have only the work product they generated after massaging the  
original data. My wife is a university grant writer, I think they would be so 
 
happy to hear that they can throw away all the data gathered from those 
funded  studies that they have always been required to keep. There is a 
warehouse full  of the stuff, still kept even though it has been transferred 
to 
microfilm and  later digital formats. 
Drew
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In a message dated 12/15/2009 12:27:45 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
lurine AT com-pair.net writes:

I don't  think the average person, which the DC Whorehouse, etc. counts on, 
 
understands what happens to all that paper.

They collect data, they  correlate data, they digest data, they spit out 
data 
in the form of papers  for peer review and scientific journals.  The data 
sits around and  then the data is trashed.  That specific project is over. 
They have  the results.  It is done.

No big conspiracy.  Just basic,  ordinary everyday housekeeping.  The idea 
that someone might have  thought 30 years ago that not keeping a collection 
of references, that can  be duplicated if needed, would cause such a stink 
is  
ludicrous.

Lynda