Gordon Couger wrote:


Elaine has no connation with Oregon State University other than a courtesy
card giving her library privileges and one professor allows her to use his
equipment,

Then do you think this is wrong?

Linkname: DR ELAINE INGHAM
URL:
http://www.westnet.com.au/satlink/KA...ham%202003.htm
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[...]
In 1986, Elaine moved to Oregon State University, and joined the
faculty in both Forest Science and Botany and Plant Pathology. For
several years, Elaine's "home" department was Botany and Plant
Pathology. In 1991,because the number of samples from outside Elaine's
immediate program being sent to her for analysis were becoming a large
component of what she was doing, Elaine opened a service through the
University called the Soil Microbial Biomass Service. The Service
offered researchers and commercial clients the ability to have soil
samples analyzed for soil foodweb organisms. During this time, Elaine
became known as an energetic and easy-to-understand speaker who
explained what life in the soil was all about, and she started
speaking to groups throughout the United States about the Soil
Foodweb.


By 1995, the number of samples coming into the Soil Microbial Biomass
Service was close to 8,000 samples a year, and the amount of lab space
required to process this number of samples was greater than originally
planned. The head of Elaine's department asked that the commercial
portion of the Biomass Service be taken off-campus. Thus, in the fall
of 1996, Soil Foodweb Inc. became a commercial enterprise.


With the move into a private lab, Elaine's focus turned more to
grower-related issues, focusing on the expense of intensive chemical
use as well as the damage these chemicals inflict on beneficial
organisms in the soil and on foliage.


The research and practical understanding and application of soil
organisms continue at Soil Foodweb Inc., while much of the academic
side of her work remains at the University. In December 2000 a new
Soil Foodweb lab was opened in Australia, at Southern Cross University
in Lismore, Australia so that growers down-under could have
overnight access to the assays they need to improve plant production
without the use of high levels of inorganic chemicals. The Lab
Director at the Australia lab is Merline Olson, Certified Soil Foodweb
Advisor.
[...]

her paper was not published until after the fact, what the EPA
calls peer review does not meet the standards of any other peer reviewed
journal

It was peer reviewed first by teh journal it was published and later by
EPA for their purposes.

and the results claimed by statistics used in the paper were not
supported by the data in the paper according to 3 professors that teach
statistics.

Do you have a ref for that please?