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Nature 446, 257 (15 March 2007) | doi:10.1038/446257d; Published online 14 March 2007

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Faulty logic

Alex C. W. May1

  1. Northwest Institute for Bio-Health Informatics, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PT, UK

Gregory C. Beroza, in his Book Review of Richter's Scale by Susan Hough (Nature 445, 599; 2007), observes that Hough is on "shaky ground" when she uses extrapolation to explain Charles Richter's "many idiosyncrasies and indiscretions".