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Hi.. Needing assistance with these this question. I do not need anything long. This is just a discussion question. Maybe one hundred and fifty to two hundred words max. Case Study is below. If possible one source is needed.
1. Read Case Study 6.1, BLT Research Team, Inc.: Science and the Circles, found on page 150 in your textbook. Take a virtual field trip to the company's website atwww.bltresearch.com/. Examine the site and apply question below to sections of the website for further evaluation of the organization's validity.
Critical Analysis
How did the company gather and evaluate their data into meaningful information? What evidence did it present in having used concrete, scientific norms for the critical analysis?
BLT RESEARCH TEAM, INC.: SCIENCE AND THE CIRCLES CASE 6.1 BLT, Inc., was incorporated as a nonprofit, tax-exempt U.S. organization in 1999, although it has been work- ing as a nonprofit institution since 1990, when Michi- gan biophysicist Wm. C. Levengood, with U.K. researcher Pat Delgado, began systematic crop circle plant comparisons with control plants taken elsewhere in the same fields. From there a worldwide, organized network of systematic field research, analysis, and re- porting of crop circle phenomena by a growing number of scientific consultants has developed. Between 1990 and 2000, more than 300 crop forma- tions were investigated in the United States, Canada, England, the Netherlands, Germany, Australia, and Israel, with field workers sampling and documenting both affected plants and control study plants, and with laboratory analysis of seeds and soils. Research papers, published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, reported that a theory of causation attributing crop circles to "human pranksters with planks and boards, was inadequate." The researchers concluded that "there are perva- sive, re-occurring abnormalities in crop-circle plants and soils (as compared to the control plants and soils taken from the same fields and as compared with plants evaluated in the control studies) which are con- sistent with exposure of these plants and soils to an intense and complex energy system which emits heat (possibly microwaves) along with highly unusual elec- trical pulses and strong magnetic fields. . . . More than 90 percent showed the characteristic anomalous changes in somatic (nonreproductive) and/or repro- ductive plant tissues, and magnetic material was con- sistently documented in those formations where soil sampling had also been conducted." BLT supports the validity of its research methods, pointing out that its work is the most comprehen- sive to date; hundreds of different field workers were mostly unacquainted with one another or with the pre- vious results; and results of testing were remarkably consistent. Additionally, they compared their results to an evaluation of experimental fields in which crops had been downed manually (using pranksters' meth- ods of trampling and compressing the plants) and found that the manually downed crop plants do not exhibit the same physical changes as in the crop circle plants studied over the years. "It seems probable, then, that the overall number of man-made crop circles is relatively small, compared to the total number of cir- cles discovered and reported each year. . . . Although the media has [sic] made this progress more difficult by labeling the crop circle phenomenon as 'fringe,' hard data—obtained through rigorous scientific methodol- ogy—is difficult to ignore."
