re: #127 Obdicut
re: #170 SixDegrees
Second, it’s extremely unusual to destroy such data in the first place, and such behavior bespeaks extreme sloppiness on the part of the researchers in question. Given the political nature of the argument, it is hard to understand why such an action would have been taken
And there’s the fly in the ointment right there. Imagine the hue and cry if say a financial institution had destroyed original documents, or a business that’s filing for bankruptcy protection destroyed original purchase and sales data, or even in your personal life you destroyed an original document relevant to a lawsuit brought against you