I particularly liked the humble suggestion that Schlafly already had a fairly easily accessible and relatively plentiful supply of E.coli at his disposal, that he was welcome to use to isolate just about any suitable strain to use for his own verification of the experimental results. And the not so subtle hints whose gist, more or less, was, "This principle is called reproducibility .. it's one of the fundamental principles of the scientific method itself."
I haven't laughed like that in a long time. It was a truly beautiful and glorious moment. :) On Jun 30, 2008, at 7:55 PM, William T Goodall wrote: > As a result, Lenski was apparently very annoyed, and his second > letter is far more assertive. "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." -- attributed to Lazarus Long by Robert A. Heinlein _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
