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Who said the research was wrong? I said the press releases were wrong, and Birney's news sound bites are sometimes wrong. He organized the group, he got the funding, so he did the project. He's obviously good at self-promotion, and in the case of ENCODE he's gone rather too far. His perspective also reflects his background in biochemistry and bioinformatics, rather than in biology proper.Then why on earth did they put him in charge if every other biologist disagrees. We have a team of over 400 scientists in one of the biggest genetics research of modern times and the head scientist who represents them is saying something that everyone disputes. Its like putting the best finance person in charge of the nations investments and he gets it wrong.
His accounting is stupid and everyone else can see that. To me that doesn't make sense why put him there in the first place, he was obviously regarded as one of the best.
Well what im thinking is if they get one of the biggest research projects wrong then how reliable is other research. There was suppose to be 30 odd peer reviewed papers done on this and your saying its wrong then whats the good of the papers.
The actual ENCODE research is widely used; we use it in our lab.
What do the press releases have to do with the peer-reviewed papers? It sure looks like you're using any excuse to dismiss evolution.So what it has to do with the DNA evidence is maybe peer reviewed papers aren't that reliable for evidence and maybe some of the findings are not reliable. If what they have found is proved true won't that start to question some of the proof that evolution uses for their argument that apes are 98% genetically similar to humans. If they find that there is more difference in the genetics with what they said was junk then doesn't that push the ape further away from being a close relative.
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