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Re:A Few Bad Scientists Are Threatening to Topple Taxonomy on Friday September 08, 2017 @01:02PM (#15201938)
He hasn't published for a few years as evidenced by this list:

https://species.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Terrence_Hoser

I never know how to interpret accuracy ratings for tests. If I told everyone I ran into on the street that they did not have Lou Gehrig's disease, regardless of any testing, I would still be 99.993% accurate. Can someone shed some insight on what 86% means?
Re:A Solution of the P versus NP Problem? on Monday August 14, 2017 @08:18PM (#15014281)
But then how will we know that paper is correct?