@pauluc: @pauluc: Paul, apparently, you did not pay careful …

Comment on Scientists and the Temptation to Bias Results by Bob Helm.

@pauluc: @pauluc: Paul, apparently, you did not pay careful attention to the data that was gathered, because these C14 dates for dinosaur bones and other Phanerozoic organics are not anywhere near the limit of detection. Not one dinosaur bone has yielded a C14 age of 40,000 years BP or greater, and some are less than 25,000 years BP.

As Sean has pointed out, contamination from natural sources should not produce this much radiocarbon. Nor should it produce such uniform results from so many different sites. If this were a single anomaly near the limit of detection, I would be happy to ignore it as you are doing. But that is not the case!

There is a probably fictitious story about people who refused to look through Galileo’s telescope for fear of what they might see. And when you cling to your paradigm and dismiss this data with a wave of your hand, you are doing exactly the same thing. Perhaps there is a good scientific explanation within your paradigm for why dinosaur bones and other Phanerozoic organics contain so much radiocarbon, but you people need to come up with it. You need to explain logically why you will accept a C14 age of 25,000 years BP (well below the limit of detection) for a woolly mammoth, but not for a dinosaur. If you can actually do this, I will be glad to accept your explanation. But hand waving and ignoring the data will not do!

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