What peer review looks like
June 23rd, 2009 | 14 Comments
Science is just a buddy system of evolutionists who routinely turn a blind eye to methodological rigor in order to make sure evolution looks credible. Peer review’s a sham, meant to give the predetermined results a little added credibility. Right?
Remember the story a couple years ago about how a couple scientists claimed they were able to extract some protein residue from the femur of a 68 million year old Tyrannosaurus Rex? The article published in Science made the phenomenal-if-true claim that the peptides in the T. rex were startlingly similar to those of a modern chicken, which would appear to demonstrate the accuracy of long-held postulations about the evolutionary relationship between saurischian dinosaurs and birds.
But as Carl Sagan noted, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Wired Magazine chronicles the story of how the 2007 claim that astounded the scientific community with its audacity was put through the ringer and consequently rejected by scads of the most qualified experts, and how the scientists behind the original claim were forced to go back, retest, and republish. The results of the team’s latest study are quite interesting.
This whole story highlights the fallacy put forth with astounding regularity by evolution-deniers that mainstream science is not rigorous or honest about the data, but is made up of agenda-driven scientists who simply front-load all their claims in favor of evolution.
Note: if you can’t force yourself to read on through the technical language in this article, maybe you should think twice before using your own non-specialist expertise to debunk evolution.
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June 23rd, 2009
Tags: creationism, evolution, intelligent design, Science

