JohnW
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Quote (Kristine @ Dec. 13 2012,09:33) | Quote (stevestory @ Dec. 12 2012,16:04) | There's an article at Pandasthumb about some crackhead's "ID article" in Bio-Complexity. It's a few pages about where to put each of the 64 codons of DNA on a tetrahedron. Why? Does something interesting occur? Does this arrangement of items suggest a mysterious order among the items, like the periodic table did?
Here's the conclusion of the 'paper':
Quote | With the current representation of the genetic code having now been described, I return briefly to the question of its possible significance. Many different representations of the genetic code will continue to find use in multiple applications. That being so, the suitability of any particular representation has to be judged in relation to the needs at hand. Even when those needs are clear, the choice of which code representation to use has an element of subjectivity. Real properties of the code and of the encoded amino acids were drawn upon to construct the representation described here, but that exercise also depended on subjective decisions regarding both the choice of organizing principles and the details of their implementation. The final tetrahedral representation presented here is therefore offered not as a demonstration of any new facts, but rather as an application of existing facts, the potential significance being that this way of organizing them may provide new insights. |
Shorter: "I arranged these things on a triangly-dealy. Maybe somebody can find something interesting about it cause I can't."
The Nobels are no doubt en route. |
And the ultimately irony is that we are left with the question: who will "use," "judge," and determine "needs," in this hideous mishmash of passive verbs? Wow, looks like somebody is trying very hard to hide the designer of this lousy paragraph!
This reads like the crappy "scholarly" papers in Communication Studies in the 1990s that left me and other scratching our heads. |
Cargo-cult science.
-------------- Math is just a language of reality. Its a waste of time to know it. - Robert Byers
There isn't any probability that the letter d is in the word "mathematics"... Â The correct answer would be "not even 0" - JoeG
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