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Surely information should prioritise sources?
If you value the source over the facts then it gets dangerous...the decision to in invade Iraq was based on bad information from a whole load of “credible” sources
Edit: whaddabout Einstein’s crazy racist travel diaries?
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I would imagine his abortion data -might- be suffering from interpretation/selection bias and scrutinize that a lot more.
But would not instantly dismiss his brown dwarf data because he's of the "hard right force his religious laws upon others" variety.
Must have been "fun" scraping that list! :)
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I once tried to cite a guy who had a really comprehensive list of brown dwarfs (they're things in space similar to Jupiter for those who don't know). He turned out to be a full-blown American hard right Baptist dude and also had a load of statistical data on abortion and climate change denial on his website, so my supervisor told me off and I ended up having to reference something else. Christian nutter dude had the best data though and I had to spend hours basically recreating his table
In before "Loony liberal left universities censoring hard-working Christian scientists"
Edit: actually the list is still up: http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/astro/browndwarflist.html