Wait - he says he has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California? An M.S. in Astronomy? HOW?

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If he's trying to debunk COBE without even mentioning WMAP I can't imagine him having much knowledge of physics or astronomy.

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According to UCSD's web page, they do offer a PhD in physics. However, as near as I can tell (they certainly don't make the search easy; presumably, if you're going after a PhD in physics, you already know what schools provide one), it's only available in biophysics, not the applied physics claimed.

Meanwhile, University of Michigan Ann Arbor appears to only offer a PhD program in astronomy, not a Masters program. It's also listed as being "astronomy and astrophysics," not just astronomy, and not radio astronomy.

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I just want to know how the CMBR is a conspiracy at NASA. The CMBR was discovered by the telephone company.

Thanks, Gillain. My "HOW" remark was more related to how he could have those degrees and then post his conclusions. They didn't seem compatible, but I've seen worse.

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I'm somewhat familiar with the Univ. of Mich. program, and I'd say its level of rigor is considerably incompatible with this guy's conclusions.

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To be fair, I often tell people I have my Masters degree in Remote Sensing and GIS, but it's really a Master of ARTS degree in Geography, from the "Geology and Geography department." He could have done a focused study of Radio Astronomy, but the degree wouldn't necessarily specify that.

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wow. If this is really Dr. Bibhas De, he is a heavyweight for sure. Search for his name on this page. note the 1988 letter from Carl Sagan. Apparently, Dr. De predicted Uranus' rings, but his prediction paper was rejected. So when rings were found, Sagan wanted to go back and read that paper. That doesn't mean the paper was scientifically sound (it could have just been lucky), it's just a really interesting anecdote.

Bummer. I wanted to run it through the w3c validator to see how many errors it has.

edit to add: Nemmine, I found it in my history (oh, my eyes!). The validator won't touch it unless I tell it to use the character encoding iso-8859-1 (Western Europe) because he uses a literal M-dash, and that's not in utf-8. Being generous, HTML 4.01 transitional produces 90 errors. I doubt that fixing these would make it any more readable.

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To be fair, I often tell people I have my Masters degree in Remote Sensing and GIS, but it's really a Master of ARTS degree in Geography, from the "Geology and Geography department."

I tell people I have a B.A. in American and European history from Purdue University (the astronaut school ), but my diploma just says "history." Under the requirements in effect when I started in the program, I was required to complete a major concentration in American, European, general, or non-Western history. I pursued the American history concentration, but I ended up completing enough European history courses that I also fulfilled the requirements for the European history major concentration, without double-counting any courses except those that were common to both programs (such as modern world history). Therefore, I effectively "double-majored" in American and European history, though such double-major was not recognized by the University. So someone looking through old Purdue catalogs might conceivably have occasion to question my credentials.

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Sorry maybe its for my bad english, but what is the supposedly science fraud about?

Sorry maybe its for my bad english, but what is the supposedly science fraud about?
The person who wrote thinks the COBE data is a fraud, at least I think that is what they are trying to say.

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If it's just us, it seems like an awful waste of space.
Contact Carl Sagan

That's OK. The author of the article the original poster referenced has the same problem.

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Nice one.


The writer claims that the signal collection methodology of COBE was too imprecise to permit the very exact blackbody spectrum curve fit of the data in the published results.

Why he couldn't just say that (and provide appropriate evidence) rather than go on a rant like a zealot on a caffeine buzz is beyond me.

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Fair enough. I'm just pointing out that "how" is a legitimate question either way, I guess.

And regardless of what focus he may have had to change the official major, what's important is that neither of the schools listed have the specific degree program claimed in the first place--claiming a Master's from a school that only offers a PhD, for example.

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Yes it is.

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Not at all.

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