Fresh doubts over t-rex chicken link

[DesertFox]

A claim by researchers to have extracted proteins from a Tyrannosaurus rex bone and matched these to proteins found in chickens has been attacked in the same journal that published the original research.

In a withering critique, computational biologist Pavel Pevzner and his colleagues at the University of California, San Diego, say that the protein claim cannot be supported by the analytical data released so far1.

The original articles, published last year in Science, claimed that palaeontologist Mary Schweitzer of North Carolina State University in Raleigh and her colleagues had recovered fragments of collagen from inside a 68-million-year-old T. rex femur bone2 — making the protein 100 times older than the previous collagen record holder, from a mastodon (Mammut americanum) that died up to 600,000 years ago.

More (http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080821/full/4541035a.html)

[DesertFox]

This is just too delicious. You can guess the politics of those claiming the t-rex chicken link, by their refusal to publish their data for inspection. This is the same "technique" used by Michael Bellesiles, who published the book alleging that early Americans didn't generally own firearms (proved false by several); by Carol Gilligan, in her phony "pilot" study "proving" that girls are "silenced" in schools because they are "differently voiced," proved false by Christine Hoff Sommers; by Arthur Kessler, for years a major anti-gun voice who refused to release his "data" but whom John Lott proved false; and by any number of other Lefty "scholars" who like their name in lights but don't like having to play honestly. These lying ass Lefties publish some study that gets celebrated to the skies, but when it comes to backing up what they say with data that they claim proves their point, the "data" disappear in a flood or get represented in a different way in an effort to avoid responsibility for the lie.

[sunsettommy]

Do not forget Michael Mann or James Hansen who are also far left moonbats.

[DoctorDoom]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/DocDoom777/LOL_Cats/RexNom.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/DocDoom777/Critters/JurasssicParkGen2.jpg

[PaulRevere]

Thank goodness that's cleared up - now I can get over my chicken phobia!

[Wyatt_Junker]

This canard's been around for awhile now. And that's how it works. Science acting like an urban legend or, in this case, a chucacabra sighting. But, since its 'science', its treated differently.

Guaranteed, that if the Maximumdouchebag was yapping on this a week prior to this revelation, he'd be repeating these same mantras. That's what he does with everything else he posts, relies on the gay scams of others with all the passion of a junior Amway salesman.

The reason why the comparison was made in the first place?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/DocDoom777/LOL_Cats/RexNom.jpg

It had nothing to do with femur bones. That was just an excuse. It had to do with what evolution does all the time. It looks at stuff like a 6 year old and says, 'Wow, that looks like that!'. And then, the theory is born, packaged, sealed and delivered with all the authority of s-c-i-e-n-c-e.

In this case, some fagmo said to themself, 'I always thought chickens and T. Rexes looked the same. Their feet. Their lack of viable arms. Why, why, why a CHICKEN is the great grandchild of GODZILLA!'

That's about as much scholarship that goes into this shit. 'Lookie, that kinduh looks like that!' And then we get our Maximumparrots from there.

Oh yeah, don't mention the size differential, the scales, the teeth, the tail etc. etc. Those fell off due to MOO-TAY-SHUNS. The all-inclusive answer to everything.

[Franko]

[COLOR="Indigo"]A claim by researchers to have extracted proteins from a Tyrannosaurus rex bone and matched these to proteins found in chickens has been attacked in the same journal that published the original research.


LOL


Well I ain't loggin' in there or givin' them religious types any of my money while they argue about Barney being a cousin to a chicken. Never mind the fact that they could extract protein from something allegedly 68 million years old, but that's for the evo/creation forum, as has been touched on a couple times before.

[DesertFox]

Evos are fundamentalist religious fanatics.

[DeclinetoState]

So, do we have another wild-ass theory (geez, how I love that phrase) that was once presented as science fact?

[Franko]

So, do we have another wild-ass theory (geez, how I love that phrase) that was once presented as science fact?

You mean like Piltdown Man, one of the pieces of 'science fact' evidence used to show evolution is science, in the movie Inherit the Wind?

[DeclinetoState]

Yes, as well as theories as to whether Australopithecus afarensis and Neanderthal man were direct ancestors or simply offshoots from our family tree.