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2008/09/17

Bad Science From Comics

Ph.D Comics has either exposed a very bad physicist or strongly misquoted her:

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1069

See first panel on third row. The entire follow up comic exacerbates this problem:

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1070

Any scientist that throws away data not fitting a theory is nothing more than a religious nut. If faced with a practical need to throw away data, one must only do so to information that is already well understood.

My money is on Teresa being misinterpreted by the wannabe scientist comic artist.

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