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Royal Society Releases Historic Science Papers
krou writes "To celebrate its 350th anniversary, the Royal Society has released a number of historic science papers and made them available online via its Trailblazing website. Among the papers are Benjamin Franklin's notes on his kite-flying experiment, a paper on black holes co-written by Professor Stephen Hawking, manuscripts from Sir Isaac Newton showing 'that white light is a mixture of other colours,' and a few other interesting details such as 'a gruesome account of a 17th century blood transfusion.'"
At least Benjamin Franklin has all his original data.
That, to me, is the infuriating art of this whole climate-gate thing.
Falsifying results when the real data didn't match your hypothesis? Bad, but it happens. Science moves on.
Lining up "peers" for fraudulent peer review? Worse, but conspiracies never last.
But deleting the genuine data, data that I paid for with my tax dollars? There should be criminal charges.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.