Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!news.glorb.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2015 16:06:42 -0500 Message-ID: <557360EA.3369@ix.netcom.com> Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2015 14:06:50 -0700 From: The Starmaker Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: sci.physics,sci.physics.relativity,sci.math,alt.astronomy Subject: Re: the most spectacular scientific fraud in a generation References: <55734A04.741B@ix.netcom.com> <55735DEA.2C16@ix.netcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 85 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 23.241.144.149 X-Trace: sv3-zfr3sePPDX2+L489RdHIcMd0Q4+zJwJnRUWDUUUtxz2IU3NzxrdPYiv7BKKDhJ5Xm/AZhMZGkNiAufU!LZgWuuXp8/bHWCyTo9XUNLUfe2o+2FGV+VFUh76qeIOvPNbJuvmZVnsNX5ptbvov4s9cPM6wFTO7!yPi/peUjefk= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 3979 Xref: aioe.org sci.physics:498277 sci.physics.relativity:352065 sci.math:307237 alt.astronomy:269679 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...