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Re: the most spectacular scientific fraud in a generation

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The Starmaker wrote:
> 
> The Starmaker wrote:
> >
> > Last year UCLA political science grad student and maybe soon-to-be
> > Princeton professor Michael LaCour released stunning findings from a
> > field trial on gay marriage called “When Contact Changes Minds.” He
> > found that a 20-minute conservation with a house-to-house canvasser
> > could convert huge numbers of opponents into supporters, at least if the
> > canvassers explained they were gay and told personal stories.
> >
> > The study quickly became a media sensation, the most talked-about
> > poli-sci paper in years, and it led gay-rights activists including some
> > working on the Ireland referendum to retool their voter outreach.
> >
> > The problem is that Mr. LaCour stands accused of faking everything from
> > start to finish. Ph.D. candidates at Berkeley David Broockman and Josh
> > Kalla tried but failed to replicate Mr. LaCour’s results. They then
> > noticed unusual statistical irregularities in Mr. LaCour’s survey panel.
> > He now says he pulled a Hillary Clinton and deleted his raw data. But
> > the canvassing firm he claimed to have employed has never heard of the
> > project—and there is no proof anyone was ever contacted, much less
> > changed their minds.
> >
> > "accused of faking everything from start to finish"
> >
> > "unusual statistical irregularities"
> >
> > all you guys are a bunch of crooks...if you stand behind him.
> 
> "Mr. LaCour denies wrongdoing"
> 
> Of course, 'faking everything from start to finish' is not wrong, or
> doing it wrong....it may be illegal, a fedral offence, but
> it isn't ....wrongdoing.
> 
> Murder isn't wrongding..
> Stealing isn't wrongdoing..
> 
> maybe illegal...but certaintly not wrong..
> 
> You guys call it...'doing it right.'
> 
> "unusual statistical irregularities"... is 'doing it right.', isn't it?
> 
> .."faking everything from start to finish" is 'doing it right.', isn't
> it???
> 
> Fuck the illegal...the illegal we do imeadately, the doing it right
> takes a little longer to do..




"Mr. LaCour’s purported findings let them claim that science had proved them right. "
https://www.google.com/#q=Scientific+Fraud+and+Politics+Look+who+is+lecturing+Republicans+about+scientific+truth.



"...science had proved them right."



That's a create con line you guys use all the time...."science had proved them right".


I hear it, time and time again....


Science is...faking everything from start to finish.



This is a fake:

All the white areas have been *grayed out* except for....
http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width/public/thumbnails/image/pia19559-1041.jpg?itok=liOhRvPZ




"faking everything from start to finish"


Okay, I want all you crooks arrested, then you can hang yourself in jail...

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the most spectacular scientific fraud in a generation The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-06-06 12:29 -0700
  Re: the most spectacular scientific fraud in a generation The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-06-06 13:54 -0700
    Re: the most spectacular scientific fraud in a generation The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-06-06 14:06 -0700
    Re: the most spectacular scientific fraud in a generation "nuny@bid.nes" <Alien8752@gmail.com> - 2015-06-06 18:05 -0700
      Re: the most spectacular scientific fraud in a generation The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-06-07 00:07 -0700

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