Nobel Prize winner disagrees with science in Wells Report

[PugBrady]

“I believe the data available on ball pressures can be explained on the basis of physical law, without manipulation,” MacKinnon writes.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...inner-disagrees-with-science-in-wells-report/

 

[RobertWeathers]

I think Florio is now on the Patriots payroll.

 

[IllegalContact]

this how wells gets a proverbial wedgie

 

[IllegalContact]

this will be fun for the science-minded....

http://wellsreportcontext.com/mackinnons-scientific-conclusion/

real facts destroying ted wells

 

[Huckleberry1]

this how wells gets a proverbial wedgie

Think Eddie Murphy, in the fat suit, with his head slowly expanding until it explodes all over the place.

 

[Palm Beach Pats Fan]

LOL,

a Colts fan yesterday was telling me

"I believe the Princeton prof over Mike Florio"

Well, the scales just got adjusted.

 

[Crazy Patriot Guy]

This the perfect place to ask. Has anyone such as a physicist or a major university physics department come out and defended the Wells report findings as being correct?

 

[borg]

Unfortunately, Kraft had a previous financial transaction involving the company the good doctor is affiliated with and any conclusion he draws will be poo pooed by the skeptics, regardless of his credentials. Each side has their go-to-guys.

 

[upstater1]

This the perfect place to ask. Has anyone such as a physicist or a major university physics department come out and defended the Wells report findings as being correct?

The boston u prof said the wells report science was correct, not the findings. I pressed him over email about it, and especially the colts balls being used as a control group, and he said I should read the appendix notes where concerns with wet balls, heated environments, transient arcs were all addressed. He was right...

But... I never brought up the gauge problem with him because I didn't know it at the time. Also, the wells people pulled the same trick with exponent that they pulled with Anderson using the gauge. They twisted the science to fit their prosecution of the patriots and Brady.

In other words, I think the boston u prof did not really think through all the variables.

 

[Palm Beach Pats Fan]

Unfortunately, Kraft had a previous financial transaction involving the company the good doctor is affiliated with and any conclusion he draws will be poo pooed by the skeptics, regardless of his credentials. Each side has their go-to-guys.

Holding stock in a company, purchased as part of an investor group, is hardly a "financial transaction" to worry about. I have some retirement money in an index fund. Does that mean I've made "financial transactions" with all of the companies listed on the Dow Jones index?

Billionaires like Kraft have investments everywhere. He probably has investments that are tied in some way to some of the people that Wells hired for his sham report.

 

[Bruins29]

Kraft paid Wells to write a shoddy report that makes the NFL culpable for this so that Kraft can sue them.

- Chris Sims

 

[juny]

So any scientists argued counter to Mackinnon? Or drewfustin?

I believe I saw a twitter exchange from someone at Nature, but at worst, they stated with all of the unknowns, no real conclusion can be made.

I really think this should be decided by the science and not a bunch of hearsay of interpreting texts.

 

[Mountain_Commando]

Standard retort of the average NFL fan:

"Yeah, so? Even Obama has a nobel duhhhh derrppp....."

 

[borg]

Holding stock in a company, purchased as part of an investor group, is hardly a "financial transaction" to worry about. I have some retirement money in an index fund. Does that mean I've made "financial transactions" with all of the companies listed on the Dow Jones index?

Billionaires like Kraft have investments everywhere. He probably has investments that are tied in some way to some of the people that Wells hired for his sham report.

You are absolutely correct......but the media is focusing on Kraft's connection...not the science in the report. Furthermore, Kraft was late to include a disclosure of the financial relationship. Amateur moves by Kraft's handlers ...and any impact they were hoping to achieve was dampened.

 

[Canuck]

I must admit I am a little disappointed. I guess I was hoping for a more scientific looking rebuttal.

 

[PATS16N0]

BUT DOES HE KNOW AS MUCH SCIENCE STUFF AS JEROME BETTIS?

 

[mikey m]

You have a Nobel prize winner in chemistry on your side? Irrelevant, your whole argument is **** since nobody could ever refer to losing weight as deflating. Only losing air.

Sincerely,

AAA (Assclowns Around America)

 

[stealthdog]

So any scientists argued counter to Mackinnon? Or drewfustin?

I believe I saw a twitter exchange from someone at Nature, but at worst, they stated with all of the unknowns, no real conclusion can be made.

I really think this should be decided by the science and not a bunch of hearsay of interpreting texts.

Have you not been paying attention to the NFL the last 4-5 years? The NFL is the new Reality TV. Decisions are made based on public responses. There is no rule book, just decisions made based on media and public opinion. Cuban is right. The NFL shelf life probably has a few more years before it expires. No reality TV show last too long.