Posted: Apr 15, 2010 3:15 pm
It seems quite obvious now that rainbow actually has nothing of substance with which to critique the paper.
He asks a series of open questions as if they should somehow lead us to something. But all we have are his questions... nothing else.
So in the care I see before me :
Random internet guy asking open questions in the absense of experimental support, contrasted with the consensus of the scientists that performed the experiment and the peer reviewers of the paper(what can on a fundamental level be described as an appeal to comparative authority), it would seem that in answer to the question posed in the title of the thread: "The sutherland synthesis - Plausible?" the preliminary answer must be "yes".
He asks a series of open questions as if they should somehow lead us to something. But all we have are his questions... nothing else.
So in the care I see before me :
Random internet guy asking open questions in the absense of experimental support, contrasted with the consensus of the scientists that performed the experiment and the peer reviewers of the paper(what can on a fundamental level be described as an appeal to comparative authority), it would seem that in answer to the question posed in the title of the thread: "The sutherland synthesis - Plausible?" the preliminary answer must be "yes".