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Message: [QUOTE="JSH, post: 3620131"] Yes. People make mistakes. And LOTS of people can make mistakes as we've learned through history. Therefore, claims of mathematicians that depend only on the world of people cannot be accepted as true on that basis. That invalidates the entire system currently in place for review of "pure" mathematical paper which is part of my point and part of the point I made to the New York Times in an email to them. We have no way of knowing just because some mathematicians claim a paper is correct that it actually is. Because people make mistakes. James Harris [/QUOTE]