[ClearCase_guy]

Liberal mantra:
Nothing is true. Everything is permiited.

[Lisbon1940]

I believe everybody is a little bit crazy.

[RedWing9]

So although the errors do not matter for the result that the authors (rightly) see as their most important, I obviously think the errors themselves matter quite a lot, especially for what it says about the scientific process both pre- and post-review.

What? I believe the writer is trying to say that the original authors of the study do not find the reversed results as important because their intent was to slime Conservatives, no?

The more I read that sentence the more confused I get...

[marktwain]

I experienced a similar event in Wisconsin, on the Crandon copper/zinc deposit.

A leftist academic had computer simulation written on the mining project. He convinced the legislature to impose a heafty severance tax on the proposed mine. The mining company gave up and did not develop it.

I wrote (with a colleague, who did tremendous work), a much larger, more sophisticated simulation for my masters thesis.

Afterward, I could read Fortran fluently. I read the academic’s program. It had one character reversed, counting as a profit an item that should have been a cost. It completely changed the outcome of the program.

Yet legislation was passed based on the flawed simulation.

A real travesty of justice.

[Blennos]

For those who don't want to wade through the article, here is the short version.

We at the American Journal of Political Science have concluded a study that proves scientifically that conservatives tend to be crazy.

Oops. Correction. We meant to say that liberals are the crazy ones. Sorry about that.

[Swordmaker]

Given that we know the authors wrote originally according to their political biases, could it be that between 2012 and now, they got mugged? (GRIN!)

Everything about Liberal thought and actions can be summed up in Swordmaker's and (my girlfriend) Kathy's proposed diagnosis for the new IDC-10 addenda:

321.0 SPLAT Liberal Cerebral Defenestration (LCD) or Liberal Acquired Brain Absence (LABA), Complete loss of rationality, cognition, and cerebration due to indiscriminately keeping one's mind so far open that the brain falls out. First and subsequent encounters.

[GOPJ]

LOL- we’re all sure the New York Times will put this front page, right?

There’s a reason the press is dying - this is one of the ten thousand....

[jonno]

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[Albion Wilde]

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