Error Undoes Faster-Than-Light Neutrino Results
It appears that the faster-than-light neutrino results, announced last September by the OPERA collaboration in Italy, was due to a mistake after all. A bad connection between a GPS unit and a computer may be to blame.
As expected. In particular, as expected by the scientists who found the odd, apparently superluminal results and who asked for help in tracking down the error.
The author of the short article that I linked to pissed me off by implying the physicists were dishonest: “Many other physicists suspected…” Maybe I’m making too much stew from one off-the-cuff oyster, or maybe the notion of honest science has been so degraded that the writer never considered that a scientist would be looking for holes in his work.
Well a reporter only has to project to find dishonesty in his subject.
Well? It was a journalist who found the problem, right? Oh, wait…..
Of course they were dishonest. They should have followed in the footsteps of those paragons of scientific virtue at East Anglia and released their data and methodology so that other scientists could attempt to replicate their results… Oh, wait….
One could wish the AGW crowd were only 10 times as dishonest as they were…
What? We shouldn’t have any right to their data…after all, we didn’t pay for it. Oh, wait…..