In line with my expectations, studies have shown that studies are in line with their expectations.
I love the face-saving gambit that "Oh, but we only intended to show the magnitude of the correlation, and the mere direction of the correlation is immaterial, now that we see the raw data was inadvertently reversed."
BULL MANURE !
Didn't Bellesiles pull some kind of excuse like that out of his ass when they found out what a fraud he was? Something like "Oh, I was only intending to show that there were fewer guns around in Colonial times than everyone thinks?"
I tells ya true. Never trust a passionate self-righteous person.
Or "scientist."
Terry