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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (114350)	7/5/2008 12:11:12 AM
From: S. maltophilia	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Trying to talk sense to a wingnut: June 24th, 2008 by Ben Goldacre in bad science \| Richard Lenski is a biologist who recently found evidence for the emergence of new traits among E.coli bacteria, in a fascinating experiment which he has described in a paper in PNAS (best lay coverage here). His results look a bit like evolution. You will note that his paper includes the original data. Andrew Schlafly is a startlingly predictable right wing christian activist who runs Conservapedia. I highly recommend a look around there if you’ve not already had the pleasure, because even the people who run Conservapedia find it hard to tell whether the edits are being made by god-fearing americans or naughty satirists. Schlafly read Lenski. He got angry. He demanded the original data. It was pointed out to him that the original data was in the paper. He demanded the original data again. With menaces. The following exchange is mirrored humbly and verbatim in case of disappearance. It represents pwnage ......... badscience.net Found at: texaskaos.com