re: #252 Walter L. Newton

So, public data should not be made public. Only the High Priests of Science should be allowed to have data.

Old, old argument you make there… some of the most amazing discoveries in science have been made by non-professionals… you sound scared.

ONly the high priests of science, and yet I am the one who is called insulting…

Walter, don’t be stupid.

Raw data is meaningless without understanding the instruments that took it. It is meaningless without the context of the error analysis. It is preciesly because the people doing the work know the instruments they used - and report on them and the error analysis in the papers that you read the journals. It is because of this that any freedom of information act BS is just BS from a biased request to begin with.

If you cared at all about science you would realize this.