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The DOE (as a research agency) does a lot of biological and genomic research and is well qualified to do this kind of research, as other comments here have poin
by extheat 4y ago
The DOE (as a research agency) does a lot of biological and genomic research and is well qualified to do this kind of research, as other comments here have pointed out. It's not uncommon for researchers in different agencies to collaborate with each other, all labs have different areas of expertise and it would be naive to say any one from one agency is more "qualified" than another. The moniker at the top is not so meaningful.
The "low confidence" has a particular meaning in the world intelligence, and the DOE is also apart of the intelligence community given they run most of the US national research laboratories.
- educaysean 4y agoAppreciate the context. There's so much jargons and different branches of departments that it's hard for a layperson to understand the significance of assessments such as these. I would have been in agreement with OP's reasoning had I not come across this.
- anigbrowl 4y agoThe "low confidence" has a particular meaning in the world intelligence Indeed, which is why I think it should be given more weight in the article. The actual terminology is easy to understand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic_confidence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic_confidence