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By R Mutt (Wed Sep 20, 2006 at 03:54:11 AM EST) MLP (all tags)

Beautiful wiring jobs [:( /.]

Stephen Fry on P.G. Wodehouse [:(]

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Top 10 science frauds [:( PU]

Dr Seuss taxidermy [:o BB]

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10 scientific frauds. lolwhat. by Gully Foyle (2.00 / 0) #1 Wed Sep 20, 2006 at 07:33:47 AM EST

I think I've been informed previously by DesiredUsername (2.00 / 0) #2 Wed Sep 20, 2006 at 07:56:05 AM EST

that the moth thing was fraud, or at least wrong, but I learned it at an age such that it has been impossible to eradicate from my mind as FAKT. Besides, that kind of thing is a great example, even if that particular instance doesn't really happen.

Did the joke on Beringer "rock the world", funny as it is? Maybe the world at the time. It would be more interesting to find frauds/hoaxes that had repurcussions later in history or at a level beyond just that scientific field.

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I learned it by MillMan (2.00 / 0) #4 Wed Sep 20, 2006 at 09:34:23 AM EST

in Biology 101 in college! I'm not sure that I learned it was a hoax later, but the "nailing moths to a tree" rings a bell.

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: It's not a hoax. by Gully Foyle (4.00 / 1) #6 Wed Sep 20, 2006 at 11:16:54 AM EST

The blogger's just full of shit. See the claims listed under CB601.

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At the risk of posting too much on this topic. by Gully Foyle (4.00 / 1) #7 Wed Sep 20, 2006 at 11:26:40 AM EST

AFAIK, only Jonathan Wells thinks Kettlewell's moths were a fraud. His arguments were recently recycled by Ann Coulter, so there's a pretty thorough debunking of this claim over at Panda's Thumb.

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: Oh great by DesiredUsername (2.00 / 0) #8 Wed Sep 20, 2006 at 11:36:43 AM EST

Now the whole thing is messed up in my brain.

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What about Lysenkoism? by Christopher Robin was Murdered (4.00 / 3) #9 Wed Sep 20, 2006 at 11:38:14 AM EST

The Soviet Union's more Marxist-correct answer to the decadence of Darwin. "Genetics" was dismissed as a Fascist ideology and nearly all the geneticists in the Soviet Union were put out of work, shipped of to camps, or executed. A 1950 encyclopedia published in the Soviet Union defined the gene as a "mythical part of living structure which in reactionary theories like Mendelism-Veysmanism-Morganism determines heredity."

Lysenkoism set back the biological sciences in Russia by decades. It was not until Lysenko was removed from power in 1964 that the study of genetics could continue in the Soviet Union.

Farming practices developed under the theory of Lysenkoism were often harmful and Lysenkoism contributed to rampant crop failures and food shortages.

I think that would count as fraud that extended beyond the academic circles of the science community.

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: one of my favorites as well by MillMan (4.00 / 1) #10 Wed Sep 20, 2006 at 12:56:55 PM EST

I don't see it brought up much - oddly I think I heard about it through some left wing political book years ago.
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wiring? by alprazolam (2.00 / 0) #3 Wed Sep 20, 2006 at 09:16:28 AM EST

beautiful tie wrap job, maybe. can't even tell about the wiring. can't even see the connections! typical slashdot crap.

Not terribly connected but, by wumpus (2.00 / 0) #13 Wed Sep 20, 2006 at 09:12:01 PM EST

there's a section in Black Magic, a handbook for high speed digital design about doing wire-wrap. EEs will simply do point to point wiring and produce an "ugly" hard-to-debug breadboard. Techs will often lay things out at right angles and bundle busses. This makes things much easier to get right. It also screws up the circuitry something fierce, and if the circuitry requires a certain clockspeed will often not make that critical cut-off.

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truly a great books by alprazolam (2.00 / 0) #14 Thu Sep 21, 2006 at 12:04:24 AM EST

Techs generally do a great job wiring up boxes in my experience, much better than engineers (me for example). And if you do a design that uses a lot of wires and the wiring messes it up because of the clockspeed, that's crappy design. The EE should do a good job on the design and making clear what needs to be done how (ie use 100 ohm twinax for channel link) and the tech should just be a tech and everything works out. Problem is these things always get rushed (yep that's me again) and you wind up trying to do the whole design and production in a month and the design is done by people who don't troubleshoot and the box is halfway useless because the guy designing it is the systems engineer who's just trying to make something that looks good in a Test Plan...oh well.

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: totally correct. by garlic (2.00 / 0) #15 Tue Sep 26, 2006 at 06:14:14 AM EST

if the wirin of the tech screws up your desin, most likely your desin is bad.

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I had a run in with TSA by georgeha (2.00 / 0) #5 Wed Sep 20, 2006 at 10:20:17 AM EST

I forgot that I had my Swiss Army Knife in my pocket, I suppose I could have got back out of line and mailed it to myself, but I don't know if I would have saved any money.

Bertie. by Christopher Robin was Murdered (2.00 / 0) #11 Wed Sep 20, 2006 at 12:57:58 PM EST

I'm glad that Fry took some time in his essay to focus on Bertie's character. Though I've always like the character of Jeeves, the real draw of those stories for me has always been Wooster.

re: artistic wiring jobs by greyshade (2.00 / 0) #12 Wed Sep 20, 2006 at 08:12:55 PM EST

Welcome to my world...

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