# Athena Institute's statistical evidence, and could members run their own study? **URL:** \ **Category:** Pheromone Theory & Molecules\ **Created:** [July 17, 2007, 4:19pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/athena-institutes-statistical-evidence-and-could-members-run-their-own-study/4688 "2007-07-17T16:19:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 24
**Author:** ![jvkohl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/jvkohl/32/1297_2.png) [@jvkohl](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/jvkohl)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2007, 6:50pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/athena-institutes-statistical-evidence-and-could-members-run-their-own-study/4688/24 "2007-08-15T18:50:55Z")
> [@DrSmellThis](#): > > Mr. Kohl, is trained only as a hospital lab technician,… He has never designed and conducted a study, and has no training in research or statistics whatsoever, much less the social sciences. (… calling himself a “researcher” is a bit sketchy, by formal standards. And processing blood samples or whatever in a hospital does not make you a “clinical laboratory scientist”, like he claims. It makes you a lab tech, period. It’s not ethically OK to say that in the sciences. These are terms reserved for people who conduct studies and have an advanced degree.) I will stand by my introduction: [Introduction: James V. Kohl](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/introduction-james-v-kohl/3912) and thank others for welcoming me to this Forum. More recently, I posted that I received an award for the author(s) of the best **social science** article, chapter, or book published during the previous year… You can verify my **Clinical Laboratory Scientist** credentials via links from my introduction: either to the [National Credentialing Agency for Laboratory Personnel](http://www.nca-info.org/), or to the [American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science](http://www.ascls.org/), You can verify my use of " **Researcher"** by examining the membership requirements for the [Society for Neuroscience.](http://www.sfn.org/) “All applicants… must be sponsored by two regular or emeritus members of the Society and must submit a curriculum vitae and bibliography with the application form.” Sponsors attest that applicants have made a significant contribution to the field (e.g., via research). I helped to design several **research** studies. A student **researcher** and I presented the most recent **research** results in April 2007 at the [Association for Chemoreception Sciences](http://www.achems.org/) annual meeting. > [@DrSmellThis](#): > > This guy has a history of causing problems and chasing people away from the other forum by trumpeting his “expert” status in every single post… Perhaps others will more fully consider who is causing the problems. > [@DrSmellThis](#): > > … he cannot offer a professional critique of any research, except from the narrow standpoint of facts and issues about pheromones… I hope to discuss facts and issues about pheromones with other members of this Forum. Discussions would be easier for me if defamatory comments about my credentials and expertise were either not anonymously made, or not made at all. James V. Kohl `http://www.pheromones.com` --- _[View the full topic](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/athena-institutes-statistical-evidence-and-could-members-run-their-own-study/4688)._