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He has said these things even though the data and even the E. Coli samples are available to qualified researchers.  Really my original post was dead on correct!  He doesn’t want the data and merely wants to create the appearance of impropriety on the part of Lenski to discredit him.  [[User:MAnderson|MAnderson]] 11:16, 2 July 2008 (EDT)
 
He has said these things even though the data and even the E. Coli samples are available to qualified researchers.  Really my original post was dead on correct!  He doesn’t want the data and merely wants to create the appearance of impropriety on the part of Lenski to discredit him.  [[User:MAnderson|MAnderson]] 11:16, 2 July 2008 (EDT)
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''Don't pretend that Lenski welcomes independent review of the data.'' I don't think MAnderson is claiming that Lenski ''welcomes'' independent review of "the data", nor does he need to ''welcome'' it in order to act properly.  He needs to make it available where it will "allow others to replicate and build on work published in PNAS".  It is evident that you do not wish to either replicate the experiment (which, if Lenski made it up, would fairly conclusively prove him a fraud) nor do you wish to review it in any meaningful way (which may build on the work by revealing its faults).  That is the PNAS requirement.  It appears that Dr. Georgia Purdom of "Answers in Genesis" has plenty of data to perform her intended review[http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/2008/06/14/news-to-note-06142008] (no doubt very negative) of Lenski's research. 
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''"At some point, StatsMsn, an open mind requires admitting the possibility that the data have not been made available because there is concern about what an independent reviewer may conclude from it"'' Agreed.  Can we test that hypothesis?  It hasn't been tested so far (unless Dr. Purdom asked for data, in which case its been falsified) because we have not seen any prospective independent reviewer ask for data.  You are not a reviewer (independent or otherwise) unless you review and you are not a ''prospective'' reviewer unless you ''seek to review''.  Why not develop a plan (with AiG or the Discovery Institute) of just what you are going to do with the data, beyond that already published of course, and ask for the data that lets you do that?  Until you have that plan it is abundantly clear that you are not a "reviewer" and have no entitlement to extra (unspecified by you) data.  --[[User:Billd|Bill Dean]] 08:50, 3 July 2008 (EDT)
    
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