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re: Duke fracking paper

i had to review the paper as part of my job so i can't pass on detailed comments from that exercise; however, here are a couple of sites that address most of the pertinent problems:

http://www.energyindepth.org/tag/report/

http://johnhanger.blogspot.com/2011/05/comments-on-duke-university-study.html

the PNAS authors have also starting writing op-ed pieces in newspapers which seem to further expose their lack of objectivity:
http://articles.philly.com/2011-05-10/news/29528421_1_water-wells-safe-drinking-natural-gas

The PNAS paper is an embarrassingly bad piece of 'science' unfortunately, i suspect that the authors' funding position will benefit. Mine will probably as well; however, i'm not the guy prostituting himself.

enjoy,
Charlie