Re: An alarming amount of image manipulation

Posted by lechristophe on
URL: http://confocal-microscopy-list.275.s1.nabble.com/Re-Ana-alarming-amount-of-image-manipulation-tp592857p592865.html

Search the CONFOCAL archive at http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?S1=confocal As they say, it is always easier to fool someone who wants to be fooled. Speaking of political perspectives on a scientific mailing list, the personal blog you promote in the signature of your emails to this mailing list is a very interesting reading, particularily the christian martyrs in muslim countries part.

Christophe

Actually, though I don't know why you want to play these political games in a scientific forum, our data were pretty good.  The claim that we knowingly projected wrong data is simply untrue, however personally satisfying you find it to inject your perspective into this forum.

I was involved in planning for biological/chemical fatalities in the invasion of Iraq.  We were scared to death -- and planning for up to 30,000 biological/chemical casualties.  The biggest fear we had involved smallpox, anthrax and persistent chem weapons.  Smallpox remains viable for as much as 13 years in cadavers, for instance, and we simply could not return contaminated bodies back to the US until they had been decontaminated.  That is a nontrivial thing to do when there are thousands of casualties. This wasn't a trivial political game, no matter how much you try to reduce it to that.  I won't bore you with what we planned, but dealing with a few tens of thousands of infectious bodies is a nontrivial task. You can't burn the bodies, for instance, without aersolizing the agents. You can't fly the bodies back in cargo holds because the change in pressure may cause outgassing and contamination of the airplane.

The bottom line, however, is if you look at the interrogation records of Saddam after his capture made by George Piro, Saddam knowingly mislead the US into thinking there were WMDs because he fundamentally didn't think that Bush would invade.

Oh, I know, it doesn't serve your taste to differentiate between being fooled by another intelligence agency and "lying," but in most of the rest of the world, folk can comprehend it.

Furthermore, perhaps the gov't should release all the raw data so that we
may have the opportunity to reanalyze them using our favorite tools.

Why stop at imaging in scientific research?

In fact, that's done all the time.


billo
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