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To: VRWC_minion
I don't see how basing a logical proof on the concept that the evidence is "too good" works.

You've heard the phrase, "if something is too good to be true, then it probably is" - the same thing applies in research. The quickest way to be exposed as a fraud is to submit data, for example a graph, which exactly fits the theoretical predictions with absolutely no error (or to use a recent example to submit graphs from two different experiments which have exactly identical noise profiles). In other words if you have too perfect a specimen then that will raise some cackles somewhere.

322 posted on 11/01/2002 7:55:04 PM PST by garbanzo
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To: garbanzo
You've heard the phrase, "if something is too good to be true, then it probably is"

But that isn't the case here. The evidence isn't conclusive and is debatable.

356 posted on 11/02/2002 5:45:31 AM PST by VRWC_minion
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