INSTAPUNDIT: VICTIM OF TOO-HIGH STANDARDS! Well, basically. Last week blogger “Godless Capitalist” sent me a link to this post on scientific misconduct at Bell Labs. I didn’t go with it because (1) I couldn’t evaluate it myself; (2) I didn’t know the blog or blogger — or even his/her real name, and hadn’t followed the blog enough to form an opinion as to reliability; and (3) It didn’t have any external references supporting the charge. In light of all of those factors, I was just afraid to put up a post on it.

Well, turns out that there’s a problem at Bell Labs, and that was probably a scoop. But what can you do? I was reluctant to go with charges I had no ability to evaluate.