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Re:The most important scientific problems have yet to be sol... by bobajeff on Thursday January 09, 2020 @05:09AM (#21999930)
There have also been serious doubts over that discovery:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24032022-600-exclusiv...

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Re:The most important scientific problems have yet to be sol... by nabnob on Thursday January 09, 2020 @10:38AM (#22002031)
So their method for finding the signal was to calculate the signal, then subtract it from the data and see if the residual noise looks like noise...how is that good science? It seems like it would be too easy to make your data fit the theory.
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