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I think it's important to remember that this isn't a personal attack on LIGO. This is just science doing it's thing. It is always critical to try your damnedes

by mabbo 9y ago

I think it's important to remember that this isn't a personal attack on LIGO. This is just science doing it's thing. It is always critical to try your damnedest to disprove the results you get that are what you want to get. Let your friends try, let your enemies try, and thank them whether they succeed or not. Otherwise, you're using science to prove yourself right rather than using it to become right.

femto113 9y ago
No, but it's not far off that: it feels like self-promotion by fabricating criticisms of an immensely popular project. IMO the core suggestion of the paper--that noise is somehow correlated across different sensors separated by thousands of miles--is substantially more extraordinary than the LIGO experiments themselves (whose findings are well supported by decades of theory), so the possibility that this paper's results stem from anything other than flawed methodology seems vanishingly small.