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Freedom of Information act
Legal Note: Lenski does not own all that data. His university owns the material. The way it works is, you file an MTA with the university for whatever it is you want, and you are generally expected to bear the standard costs of providing it to you. This is accepted practice in science. If you want the data, do this, and then if they turn you down you could perhaps sue Michigan State for some kind of discrimination. To go outside these procedures is to request special treatment.
Legal Note: Lenski does not own all that data. His university owns the material. The way it works is, you file an MTA with the university for whatever it is you want, and you are generally expected to bear the standard costs of providing it to you. This is accepted practice in science. If you want the data, do this, and then if they turn you down you could perhaps sue Michigan State for some kind of discrimination. To go outside these procedures is to request special treatment.
==Freedom of Information act==
The challenge on the front page refers to Lenski’s [[Federally funded research]]. Conservapedia’s article about about Federally funded research [[Federally_funded_research#Circular_A-110 | says:]]
*“As part of the Fiscal Year (FY) 1999 Omnibus Appropriations Act (P.L. 105-277), Congress included a provision introduced by Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL) that for the first time allows the public to obtain federally funded research data collected through grants and agreements with universities and other nonprofit organizations.”
If this work was federally funded, and if the legislation says what Conservapedia says it says, then a competent lawyer should have no problem in formatting the questions into a FOI request. Have I won the challenge?[[User:Tolerance|Tolerance]] 09:39, 5 July 2008 (EDT)