[MD] SOM's defect comes home to roost

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Platt]
Wry smiling is appropriate...

[Arlo]
Wow. Never has one post threaded together so many squawking points so 
succinctly. As for "the intellectual integrity of the entire 
scientific edifice" being threatened, well, only in the minds of 
right-wing anti-intellectuals for whom it was already The Great 
Enemy. I mean, this would be like saying the "entire edifice of 
Christianity's integrity is abolished" when Jimmy Swaggart got busted 
doing coke with a whore. Or the "intellectual integrity of the 
Republican party" was threatened when Larry Craig got busted trying 
to arrange a homosexual bang in an airport bathroom. I'd say its 
grossly out of proportion, but again, for those who base their 
ideology on anti-intellectualism, its expected.