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Originally Posted by Wiseman
Sigaba,
From a scientifical point of view, I do not care about the political announcement. I am looking at this from a technical point of view. When you are making qualitative assertions, you need a qualitative negative control image of the lunar dust samples and silicon wafers that they claimed to have used. I can look at the paper again but I don't see that image in there.
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Wiseman--
My statement was not a criticism of your technical analysis.
I was offering the opinion that, for better or for worse, scientific research done by a government agency is going to have a political component. Does separating technical analysis from other factors help or hinder our understanding of how scientists--and professionals in other fields--get things done? (To paraphrase a feminist slogan "the scientific is political.")
This may be a great opportunity for one to think about how he/she would handle the political dimensions of scientific work.