NormOlsen
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Joined: Nov. 2011
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| Quote (olegt @ June 20 2012,07:41) | DO'L posts a link to a Discovery story about a contrarian astronomer doubting the Big-Bang connection to the latest studies of the cosmic microwave background radiation. She fails to mention that the guy's alternative theory did not pass the statistical test. (The Discovery story does.)
Meanwhile, the WMAP team wins the Gruber Prize in cosmology. Will this make DeNews? |
Nice, he criticizes the results of a detailed statistical analysis which finds that the "CMB blobs yield a power spectrum that exactly fits theoretical predictions":
| Quote | | Verschuur shrugs off the interpretation, saying that astronomers can analyze the data and then stop when, "they find what they are looking for." |
Then he defends his own eye ball interpretation:
| Quote | | "astronomers who study interstellar structure do not use statistics to show associations between different forms of matter ... they go by what the data look like." |
Quack alert!
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