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by tremon 3677 days ago
if the assumption turns out wrong, that's not a criticism of the work otherwise based on it.

True. It is however, a criticism of everyone that conveniently forgot to mention that critical assumption, and that starts with the UTA press release.

Acting like Cuntz, et al., [..] have some kind of infantile understanding of poetry

That's not the most damning criticism in the article though. The most damning is that they seem to have copied entire paragraphs off Wikipedia, which suggests they have some kind of infantile understanding of science.

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> That's not the most damning criticism in the article though. The most damning is that they seem to have copied entire paragraphs off Wikipedia, which suggests they have some kind of infantile understanding of science.

I agree about this. If the other article had been about this and a small amount about the continually beaten dead horse of qualifying your research (or qualifying media headlines) with caveats and assumptions, then it would have been reasonable.