[tpanther]

btw...Rice University is in Texas right?

I do wonder how liberal this institution of higher learning rates with some of the others, which probably isn’t saying much...but at least it’s not in the northeast, or on the left coast; that much you have going for you! ;)

[allmendream]

Only if I ascribed credibility based entirely upon someones adherence to my political philosophy would Rice Universities locale in a “Red” state be something I had going for me.

I have every confidence that the people at Rice University conducted the study with an eye towards accuracy just as much as the study published in Nature.

The discrepancy between the two studies isn't in “who you trust”, it is from the questions asked and who they asked the questions to.