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Re:A Failure of Academic Quality Control [pdf] by mherdeg on Sunday September 02, 2018 @07:42PM (#17899287)
> But then, Freeman's analysis is itself still controversial, so who knows.

Yeah it's always interesting as an outsider to read about settled scientific wisdom being enthusiastically challenged. I liked:

* the Gerta Keller dinosaur asteroid story -- https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/09/dinosau...

* the Rebecca Fried "No Irish Need Apply" back-and-forth -- https://web.archive.org/web/20150805045521/http://intl-jsh.o...

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Re:A Failure of Academic Quality Control [pdf] by rossdavidh on Sunday September 02, 2018 @08:06PM (#17899356)
These are all interesting, and I hadn't heard about the NINA one, thanks! Of course, the HIV skeptics turned out to be...just plain incorrect. So sometimes the settled scientific wisdom is correct. But, not always...
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