Freaking awesome.
Tom is the gift that keeps on giving.
Some of you may know who Michael McCann is.
For those who don't he is a sports and law contributor to SI.
He is also a professor or Dean now of the law school at the University of New Hampshire.
Great guy. Have had dinner with he and his wife a couple of times.
He ran a class on DeflatGate at UNH for several years which taught many legal principles and this most foundational and basic physical law, The Ideal Gas Law.
Over dinner one night in Portsmouth I remembered some after school commercial or something with Linus and Charlie Brown I think.
It was on a cold day in the cartoon and Chuck wanted to ride his bike but the tires were flat.
He said in his typically negative and brilliant tone, "Drat".
Linus then explained to him in simple terms that cold makes the air in the tires decrease. All he had to do was grab the pump and add air.
Don't know if Michael ever used that example but that is something that came straight to mind about this DeflateGate bullshit.
I mean I knew it, and probably so did many others since we were kids.
But yeah, let's spend millions of dollars paying a "Scientific Valdidation" firm who is always bought and paid for to deliver results in favor of the buyer. The same firm which the tobacco industry paid to deliver results that second hand smoke has 0 effect on anyone.
My God, my 9th grade biology teacher at a private school here in NH ran a real world, in class experiment on that. She knew the answer but didnt tell us in advance.
She had us smokers fire up around our non smoking classmates. Checked their blood pressure before and after. Simple as that and it was obvious there was some effect.
But yeah, let's get this firm and pay for the results your looking for.
That's a great story Tim.
Just also know that that there are at least a few kids coming out of UNH with at least a good glimpse of the bullshit that can be pulled by an agenda backed "Scientific" study.