Surely you are not also going to claim that because a guy lie and cheated, and was caught by a major university, and they actually did something about it, that this is a great badge of honor for the scientific community are you? The Catholic church also punished a few priests you know?
(1) Did the scientific community spend hundreds of millions of dollars to cover these up like the catholic church?
(2) His own students turned him in. Can you say the same about those priests and the catholic church?
(3) What about all those miracle healers like Peter Popoff?
That's right, it took a gay atheist skeptic to expose this fraud instead of you hollier than thou religionists. How do you explain that?
(4) This is a classic example of science's self-correcting nature. It is impossible for any researcher to commit fraud without somebody blowing the whistle. In this case, his own students did before any other researchers tried to replicate his experiments. And even if they hadn't, eventually people who couldn't replicate the results of his experiments would have called him on it.
Can the same thing be said about the faith healers?
yes someone did say it or it wouldn't have been quoted. i am going to have to change my quoting habits to make sure editing doesn't take place after i quote theperson.
I don't mean to say this right after he's suspended, but I really need to bring this to people's attention.
In message 23, archaeologist said...
quote:no it is not impossible for any researcher to commit fraud.
Huntard in response said
quote:Nobody ever said it was.
Archaeologist replied in message 36
quote:yes someone did say it or it wouldn't have been quoted. i am going to have to change my quoting habits to make sure editing doesn't take place after i quote theperson.
He was referring to my message 17, which I said
quote: This is a classic example of science's self-correcting nature. It is impossible for any researcher to commit fraud without somebody blowing the whistle.
I never edited that message. So, archaeologist is saying outright that I tried to lie, which I did not.