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#''Data from the PSR B1913+16 increasingly diverge from predictions of the General Theory of Relativity such that, despite a Nobel Prize in Physics being awarded for early work on this pulsar, no data at all have been released about it for over five years.''
 
#''Data from the PSR B1913+16 increasingly diverge from predictions of the General Theory of Relativity such that, despite a Nobel Prize in Physics being awarded for early work on this pulsar, no data at all have been released about it for over five years.''
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#:Please read the cited paper carefully.  It is a survey of their observations over a 30 year period.  They point out that their data matches general relativity to within 0.2 percent, and is now down in the "noise" of other effects, such as lack of accurate knowledge of just how far away the pulsars are, and lack of accurate knowledge of galactic constants.  As they say in the abstract, "tighter bounds will be difficult to obtain."  The paper, written in 2004, also notes that, because the pulsar beams are slowly tilting out of the line of sight to Earth, "A core component [of the emission] is quite prominent in the data taken in 1980-81, but it faded very significantly between 1980 and 1998 and was nearly gone by 2003."
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#:That is why they are not releasing further data.  30 years is a fairly long time to watch a pair of pulsars.  They're not doing the experiment any more—it did its job, and it's finished.  No one drops cannonballs off the Leaning Tower of Pisa any more either.
 
#''The lack of useful devices developed based on any insights provided by the theory; no lives have been saved or helped, and the theory has not led to other useful theories and may have interfered with scientific progress.  This stands in stark contrast with every verified theory of science.''
 
#''The lack of useful devices developed based on any insights provided by the theory; no lives have been saved or helped, and the theory has not led to other useful theories and may have interfered with scientific progress.  This stands in stark contrast with every verified theory of science.''
 
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