Penn State Claims Link Between Fracking & Earthquakes, Without Research

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Penn StateWhat has happened to one of the world's finest research universities? A press release issued yesterday by Penn State touts their participation in helping set up a seismic monitoring system throughout Pennsylvania. In the announcement, Penn State researchers openly admit this about a series of tiny quakes in western PA that couldn't be felt at the surface: "We have not done enough analysis of the data to make any conclusions yet, but there is a correlation spatially and temporally between the fracking and the earthquakes." In other words--"We haven't actually done the research, but we're going to say there's a connection between fracking and earthquakes--because we feel like it." That's not science--that's politics. Real scientists observe first, then conclude. Penn State is reversing that order--they already have their conclusions, now it's just a matter of warping the observations to fit their conclusions. Sad...

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