Yep, it is and these days, thanks to the magic interwebs, we’re less likely to put our backs out grappling with hefty volumes of citation indexes, directories and the like!

“Why is Dr Geier surprised that a trained librarian can locate information?”
I thought locating information was pretty much what librarians did. Maybe Geier was confused about what librarians actually do.

a critical perspective on the recent Geier co-authored paper, disappointingly uncritically reported by Ed Silverman on Pharmalot.

Why is Dr Geier surprised that a trained librarian can locate information?
Go Kathleen, from a fellow librarian.

The scope of Ms. Seidel’s capacity to dig up material on my past is incredible. I do not believe that she could do this without a lot of help.

Teh interwebs really do look like magic to some people, as does the capacity to consult various official documents etc., visit national libraries, order from stacks, read and understand documents.

[quote]The scope of Ms. Seidel’s capacity to dig up material on my past is incredible. I do not believe that she could do this without a lot of help[/quote]

Nice to see that Geier is retaining all his tact, as well, with a charming reference to “losing” children to autism. I guess, if autistic children are already ‘lost’, this might go some way to explaining certain researchers’ approach to ethics when experimenting on autistic children?