User:Richerman/sandbox3

Mice have been used in Biomedical research since the 16th Century when William Harvey used them for his studies on reproduction and blood circulation and Robert Hooke used them to investigate the biological consequences of increase in air pressure. During the 18th Century Joseph Priestly and Antoine Lavoisier both used mice to study respiration. In the 19th Century Gregor Mendel carried out his early investigations of inheritance on mouse coat color but was asked by his superior to stop breeding in his cell "smelly creatures that, in addition, copulated and had sex". He then switched his investigations to peas but as his observations were published in a Botanical journal they were virtually ignored until they were rediscovered in the early 20th Century. In 1902 Lucien Cuénot published the results of his experiments using mice which showed that Mendel's laws of inheritance were also valid for animals — results that were soon confirmed and extended to other species.

Formation of the cove
During the lower carboniferous period the land that now forms Britain was about 5 degrees south of the equator and the area that now forms Yorkshire was covered by a shallow tropical sea. Coral reefs that formed on the floor of the ocean were eventually compressed into limestone and the land moved by plate techtonics to its present location. At some point the joint between the hard limestone and the softer rock fractured to form the Craven Fault and the Great Scar Limestone to the north was pushed over the rocks to the south, which then eroded leaving the harder limestone exposed as cliffs.

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5BS5uk2PQ68C&pg=PA88&dq=malham+cove&hl=en&sa=X&ei=rWpHT933Jszq8QOFwcWaDg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=malham%20cove&f=false

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TPA6AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA118&dq=craven+fault&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-XtHT7SHDoO48gO6r8WEDg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=craven%20fault&f=false

Yes, the committee should take on this case in order to clear up the unholy mess they created in the first place. This whole problem was created by the sanctions applied to Eric Corbett by the Arbs presiding over the CGTF case. New York Brad — the only Arb that shows any integrity — suggested that Eric should be just banned from the CGTF pages, which would have sorted out the problem. Unfortunately other members of the committee weren't satisfied with that and wanted to take things further and stop EC from ever mentioning the CGTF again. This is a blatant attack on freedom of speech and the sort of remedy used throughout history by the worst dictatorships. Wikipedia is hosted in the US, a country which is proud of its freedoms, particularly the First amendment, yet the people who are elected to police the site seek to deny this most basic freedom to one its contributors when they show a bit of dissent. to quote from our own article on the subject

 Freedom of speech is the concept of the rights to voice one's opinion publicly without fear of censorship or punishment... The right is preserved in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and is granted formal recognition by the laws of most nations... In many nations, particularly those with relatively authoritarian forms of government, overt government censorship is enforced" 

I find it particularly galling that, at least one one of the Arbs involved in that case, had at the time and still has, a userbox on his page that says "This user is a member of Wikipedians against censorship" - I see that as the worst kind of hypocrisy. Now, some also seek to deny EC the right of reply to defamatory statements made about him, and the summary desysopping of the female admin who unblocked EC is beyond parody.

This isn't just about EC but about any editor on this site who has been put under this sort of restriction. The committee should remove all "broadly construed" restrictions on any editor who has them in place and allow them to air their opinions as and when they see fit as long as they are not causing disruption to the project. If you don't lke what they have t say you are free to just ignore them.