Lemmie wrote:This is utterly unbelievable, but Tom has pointed out to me that Peterson has re-plagiarized a portion of a previously plagiarized blog entry, on the exact one year anniversary of when he first plagiarized it!
this year's version: "Humility in science"
9 October 2018 By Dan Peterson
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeterso ... ience.html
last year's version: "Science has a history, and that is actually significant"
9 October 2017 by Dan Peterson
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeterso ... l#_ftnref1
Here is the paragraph from this year, again plagiarized from Charles Krauthammer:Daniel C. Peterson, plagiarizing, wrote:But let’s take a very down-to-earth branch of science, nutrition. We have recently learned that butter may be better for us than stick margarine. Eggs may not be bad for us, after all. Diet fashions seem to change like the seasons. In psychiatry, the lives of many patients were destroyed by lobotomies and shock therapy—therapeutic techniques that are now so far out of fashion that we can scarcely imagine a time when they were (but they most definitely were) the preferred methods of dealing with several mental health problems. Just a few decades ago, virtually every kid had a tonsillectomy. That was just part of growing up, at least in America. Yet we now understand that tonsillectomies are mostly unnecessary, and can be worse than useless. We used to know that ulcers were caused by stress, or by excess stomach acid. Now we know that most ulcers are caused by a bacterium known as Helicobacter pylori or by the use of aspirin or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. If there was anything absolutely sure in medical education, it was the fact that the mean human body temperature was 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. Everybody knew it, not just doctors. However, in 1992, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a study in which scientists actually measured the mean human body temperature, and it turned out to be 98.2 degrees.[1] So what’s the source of the figure 98.6? A German physician by the name of Carl Wunderlich came up with it in 1868, and nobody had bothered to check it since then.
[1] Source?
And I don't even have to write anything, I will just re-post my exact entry from last year, where I documented his plagiarism from then, which also documents his plagiarism now, based upon the identical paragraphs:Lemmie, October 9, 2017 wrote:...the unfortunate part is that he seems to have plagiarized far too many parts of it directly from an op-ed piece published in the Washington Post by Charles Krauthammer, dated July 15, 2002.
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Speaking of July 2002, while casually thumbing through some old issues of Time during a relaxing weekend stay with some good friends in picturesque Snowville, Utah (a few hundred yards from the town cemetery), this past weekend, I came across an intriguing article by Michael D. Lemonick and Andrea Dorfman titled "How Life Began" (Time, July 24, 2002). In reading the Time article, I couldn't help but be reminded of another passage in Dr. Peterson's October 9, 2017/2018 blog posts.
Dr. Peterson:
In recent years, contrary to what the biology textbooks led everybody to expect, scientist have found colonies of microbes thriving near hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the ocean. Water, superheated by rising magma and laden with toxic substances like hydrogen, arsenic, lead, cadmium, and hydrogen sulfide, spews forth at temperatures rising up to 750 degrees Fahrenheit.
Time:
It's hard to imagine a more inhospitable place on earth than the hydrothermal vents that pepper the ocean floor. These cracks in the sea bottom spew water superheated by rising magma to as high as 750 degrees F and contaminated with toxic substances such as hydrogen sulfide, cadmium, arsenic and lead. Yet despite these lethal conditions, life not only survives but thrives in the form of colonies of microbes that feed on poison and multiply in temperatures that could hard-boil an egg. . . . Over the past few years, in fact, scientists have been finding life in all sorts of places where biology textbooks say it shouldn't exist.
Dr. Peterson:
Microbial DNA has been located two miles below the Antarctic ice cap.
Time:
The frozen continent of Antarctica is almost equally deadly, but at the other end of the temperature scale. Drill into the ice cap a mile, then another, and you reach, improbably, a body of water known as Lake Vostok that rivals Lake Ontario in size. While scientists haven't yet drilled into the lake itself, they have pulled up samples of frozen lake water clinging to the bottom of the ice cap that contain unmistakable evidence of microbial DNA.
Dr. Peterson:
Living creatures have been found in solid rock at the bottom of deep mines, in brine pools that are five times as salty as the ocean, in volcanic rock twelve hundred feet below the sea floor.
Time:
In the past few months alone, researchers have extracted colonies of microbes that thrive at 137 degrees F in an underground hot spring in Idaho and found others eating into volcanic rock 1,200 ft. beneath the sea floor. . . . [Microorganisms are] living in solid rock at the bottom of deep mines. They're growing in brine pools five times saltier than the ocean[.]
Dr. Peterson:
Where all living organisms were, until recently, thought to depend either directly or indirectly upon the energy of the sun (via photosynthesis, or eating things that live by photosynthesis, or eating things that eat things that live by photosynthesis), organisms have now been discovered that living off of sulfide, methane, iron, manganese, and hydrogen.
Time:
At the bottom of the food chain were microbes that, scientists soon realized, were thriving on nothing more than heat and poison. "They make a living," explains John Baross, of the University of Washington's School of Oceanography, "by oxidizing sulfide, methane, iron and other metals." After years of digging into the sediments in and around vents, Baross discovered that these microbes have adapted to a wide variety of thermal conditions, from room temperature to well above boiling.
While their hardiness was a big surprise, the microbes' ability to eat hydrogen, sulfur, manganese and other chemicals — a process known as known as [sic] chemoautotrophy — was a revelation. Until then, all living systems were thought to depend on photosynthesis, using sunlight as a primary energy source. (Even cave-dwelling or deep-water creatures who never see the sun eat organic matter that ultimately originates from photosynthesis.) But if life could thrive without even indirect contact with sunlight, the amount of potentially habitable real estate on the planet would expand considerably.
If Dr. Peterson did take notes from the Time article, I'd recommend that he credit Mr. Lemonick and Ms. Dorfman. Why didn't he include a citation to Krauthammer in his notes? I have no idea.
By the way, the banana cream pie at Mollie's Cafe in Snowville should not be missed.
