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Batter #4: Missing MLV or Mistaking It? The Brits Pitch - Why was the Imperial College and the CDC teams unable to detect MLV’s using generic primers that should have been able to pick them up?
The Swing - The Yanks stepped out of the box on this one and gave no answer - perhaps not desiring to answer a question no one knows the answer to.
Laymen’s Score - the Brits pitched a high and hard one - an unanswerable question, at this point, perhaps prompting the other dugout to scramble out onto the field in protest. Nevertheless, one out for the Yanks for not answering.
Who knows, someday McClure might even be willing to go to the WPI - ehhh, never mind. That's probably not going to happen.
For heaven sake.
Englishmen do not play basebal but cricket.
Did you ever try to find out the rules of this game
No question this was a sticky wicket.Cricket? Cricket? Is that not a little bug that squeaks?? :tear:
(I feel I am dangerously close to the stereotype of the unknowledgeable American...)
No, pitiful attempts at humor aside, I know little of cricket - the other big bat and ball game.......Maybe that's why the Brits lost so badly this time..maybe they were 'out of their league' or as Cloud so cleverly puts 'playing a different game'.
Don't they pitch underhand in cricket?
Lessons of the "don't advocate retroviral theories" variety have not led to great advances.
Good research branches out in many directions, even if based on false assumptions. Bad research goes nowhere. I have my own opinions about what we are seeing played out in front of us.
If one guess about mistaken assumptions is correct, we even have a dramatic personal tragedy here. Dr. Weiss, to mention only a single name, may have allowed a Nobel prize to slip through his fingers more than once.
Watch out for unsavoury tactics: you will need to know what is cricket and what is not cricket.