Re: Evolutionist withholds evidence on Haldane's Dilemma

Tim Tyler wrote:
Josh Hayes wrote:
Walter ReMine <science@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Nunney is withholding key evidence. [...]
I don't think I agree that Nunney is "withholding key evidence" -- in his
paper he says how he constructed his model, and what his results were. You
are free to construct a model according to what he says in the paper, and
if you do, one of two things will happen:

1) You'll get the same results as Nunney did, which will require you to
figure out what the "flaw" is in the model, if you think these results
aren't possible, or

2) You'll get different results, in which case you can write your OWN paper
and publish it.

That sort of stuff is a big waste of everyone's time.

Then you need a third review paper to decide which
researcher is right.

No, if you get different results, the correct procedure would to then
email the other researcher, and explain that you've got different
results, and start a dialogue about why. This will be a lot quicker,
and more satisfying when one of you finds the error.

It is far better for everyone concerned if researchers
simply publish their source code in the first place -
preferably with as liberal license as possible.

Then if there's a problem, observers can simply
say: look, a bug on line 96.

Publishing existing programs on the net is usually
inexpensive, so there is not really any good excuse
for not doing it.

There can be legal problems with software licences: if one uses
propriety code, then it may not be possible to release it.

Bob

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