tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19111384.post3523921232055678943..comments2024-03-24T17:06:47.135-04:00Comments on Story Bones: The trouble with tribblesSteve Buchheithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12999709767641212586noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19111384.post-1016931037595210112009-12-04T21:53:25.059-05:002009-12-04T21:53:25.059-05:00Catherine, nope, not at all. And yeah, that's ...Catherine, nope, not at all. And yeah, that's the basic gist of things. The other side gets to point and say, "see, it's all bogus and they hid things."<br /><br />Not like we don't have other copies of the data sets at NASA, NOAA, and five or six other research centers that show exactly the same thing. In this case, because of the "controversy" there are plenty of scientists cross checking, rerunning, and verifying data and conclusions (I say in this case, because, like the whole "science tied to competitive research grants" problem, there's also the problem that for most experiments, nobody is verifying the results by repeating the experiments - in this case, however, there is multiple redundancy).Steve Buchheithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12999709767641212586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19111384.post-89075038280686360692009-12-04T20:16:10.813-05:002009-12-04T20:16:10.813-05:00Not that you're angry at them or anything...
...Not that you're angry at them or anything...<br /><br />So, even though there's a lot of good science supporting global warning, it's nice to know we can discard that all in the blink of an eye, because we want to.<br /><br />You know, I can lie about eating a twinkie, but the weight I gain is going to be the same, whether I believe a twinkie has calories or not...<br /><br />CatherineAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com