#1: Could you quantify how much different? I'm not understanding the value of "way different".
#2: Do you believe I could credibly claim the Earth has been faked if I were able to show that rock samples from one part of the world are measurably different from rock samples taken hundreds of miles away?
#1: Did you not see the pie graphs in the chart I posted from that Chinese paper? One is for Apollo, the other is for Chang'e 5.
Sorry, I was away this weekend and am just catching up now.
#1. Yes, I saw the pie graphs and the chart. I'm not a geologist and neither are you. What's missing is some kind of range of acceptable norms. I don't know how much variance should be expected, and I'm very certain you don't either. All this shows there is some difference, but there is no indication of whether it is something significant.
If this is "way different" than the expected range of variance, to use your technical jargon, I'm curious as to why the study is titled, "Extraterrestrial photosynthesis by Chang’E-5 lunar soil" and not something more like, "Holy shit, Apollo rocks were faked!" It doesn't seem like the professionals who conducted the study have reached the same conclusion you did about their data. What do you think the reason for that is?
So why link to the article and use it to prop up your claim if you are unable to verify the veracity of it?
Because it looks accurate/neutral/factual so I present it. If it's wrong, then it gets challenged, and we reassess. Do you want to challenge it? I will accept your challenges if you have them. If I were to stake my claim ahead, "I KNOW THIS ARTICLE IS FACTUAL" - that would be quite dumb of me. So I don't. This is how honest debates go - sometimes you think a claim/source is credible, but later find out it is not.
No, no, no, no, no! This is not how "honest debates go". If something "looks" accurate/neutral/factual to you, then you vet and verify it to be sure that it is, in fact, accurate and factual. Once you have subjected it to enough scrutiny
yourself, and documented the ways you verified it, only then should it be presented as fact. We all make errors, so sometimes something that is vetted may still be discovered to be faulty, but that is only legitimate when a thorough investigation has already been performed by the claimant. No one in an honest discussion has the burden of being your research assistant. It is
your responsibility to ensure that the material you present is as accurate as possible before presenting it.
Your method is just throwing things against the wall to see if it sticks, and then declaring victory if someone doesn't have a thoroughly documented and verified rebuttal ready. It is lazy and dishonest and has nothing to do with actual research or debate. I have told you variations of this several times already. When are you going to learn?