Academia=squabbling over ideas?

viennariver
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:34:03 +0000

RacinReaver, literally the exact same thing has been happening with us and a couple of computationalists out at Stanford.

It was somewhat funny, they got all bent out of shape that our data and their predictions didn’t match, claiming how we were wrong, yada yada yada. We had in essence scaled our experiment way back so that we could actually compare our work to their work, but in reality we have gone well beyond the scope of what they were trying to do. So when they starting complaining our advisor decided to send them the proverbial middle finger and do our tests well past their capabilities. At which point they couldn’t refute our work any more. And some icing on the cake, another experimental group got involved in this and their work supports everything we did as well.

Score 1 for the good guys!