Jon Ellison Wrote:
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> Audrey Wrote:
>
> > If Egyptology would do what needs to be done
> > people wouldn't be sneaking under the fence to
> get
> > the job done. As far as I'm concerned, they
> asked
> > for it. They hung a neon sign on G1 that said -
> > dare to find the truth.
>
> Any moral, legal or political implications are
> irrelevant.
> A sample was taken and a sample was analysed by a
> renowned lab.
> Results were obtained from that analyses.
> Even if those who took the sample are demonised
> and criminalised, it has no bearing whatsoever on
> the lab test results.
>
> It's pitiful that the SCA had not already carried
> out its own analyses, and if it already has, it's
> even more pitiful that those results have not yet
> been published.
>
> Is it a question of "two wrongs do not make a
> right" or "two wrongs make a right"?
> In this case knowledge was being denied, those who
> felt they were being denied that knowledge took
> action in order to gain that knowledge.
> It is legally and morally acceptable to repossess
> that which is yours and is being withheld from
> you.
> The physical samples have been returned.
> It's a question of ownership of, access to, and
> denial of knowledge.
> "Entrapment" varies by jurisdiction.

It's a question of how (un)reliable the test results and the source is.