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Steve Gray

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Re: Lifters (sorry Gandalf)

Nov 28, 2003, 17:58

On the face of it your first sited article appears to be a well researched scientific paper. However, its is not as scientific and unbiased as it ought to be. The authors seem to have assumed (in advance) that the circles are caused by atmospheric plasma. They say that they have sampled many circles from many countries over a ten year period and yet they don't mention that some circles are known to be hoaxes. For their control plants they take samples from the surrounding field that have not been damaged. What they *ought* to do is to use plants from known hoax circles as a control. That way they could determine whether the effects they observe are merely a natural process that occurs after a plant has been damaged by whatever means.

They present the plant abberations and then immediately conclude that these are due to exposure to atmospheric plasma energy. They fail to discuss any other explanations for their findings.

The graphs they present have an amazingly small number of sample points considering the amount of data that they have supposedly obtained. Three or four points is not enough to give the 95% confidence levels they are quoting.

All in all, not a very scientific approach.

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