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The Grantland Dr. V Transgender Controversy

Sirkickyass said:
Let me tell you, as someone who has done a lot of legal work related to fraud: the defense of "I only said that because I knew you'd fall for it" is the worst possible fraud defense ever conceived by any living creature in any known universe observable by any actual or spiritual entity.
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Congratulations on helping perpetuate a system that rewards and protects the stupid.
 
I'm all for letting stupidity be painful, but tricking people with lies and deceit... That's on the liar, not the idiot believing them.
 
JimLes said:
Because idiots fall for them, then turn around and complain they're being defrauded.
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So your contention is that there's nothing wrong with falsifying credentials but there is something wrong with verifying whether credentials are falsified? You have a big problem with people who fall for falsified claims, but no problem with people who make them? Wow.
 
I'd still like to know a bit more about Gary McCord's involvement in all of this...
that's something a good investigative reporter should take an interest in...

from the original story in the first post

...But it wasn’t just the science behind Dr. V’s putter that intrigued McCord. It was the scientist, too. For starters, she was a woman in the male-dominated golf industry. She also cut a striking figure, standing 6-foot-3 with a shock of red hair. What’s more, she was a Vanderbilt, some link in the long line descending from Cornelius, the original Commodore. All of this would have been more than enough to capture McCord’s attention, but what he found most remarkable about Dr. V was where she had been before she started making putters. She told him she had spent most of her career as a private contractor for the Department of Defense, working on projects so secretive — including the stealth bomber — that her name wasn’t listed on government records. “Isn’t that about as clandestine as you can get?” McCord asked me.

He had his own peculiar way of verifying this information. McCord said he was on friendly terms with a few retired four-star generals. He told me that they not only knew of Dr. V, but also that one had even called her “one of us.” ...


...The other question to consider was if any of the lies actually mattered. Yes, Dr. V had fabricated a résumé that helped sell the Oracle putter under false pretenses. But she was far from the first clubmaker to attach questionable scientific value to a piece of equipment just to make it more marketable. Sure, her lies were more audacious than the embellishments found in late-night infomercials. But her ultimate intent — to make a few bucks, or, maybe, to be known as a genius — remained the same. Whatever the answers, Gary McCord would not be able to help me find them. The man who had once been so willing to talk stopped responding to my emails. Finally, a spokesperson at CBS told me that McCord had “nothing more to add to the story.”
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AND - I know we have some golfers here, has anyone tried this putter? Anyone heard of it before this?
 
My question is if she falsified her resume, did the putter do what she said it did and if so how was she able to design it without the background she claimed to have?
 
Gameface said:
My question is if she falsified her resume, did the putter do what she said it did and if so how was she able to design it without the background she claimed to have?
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The author says the putter no longer worked for him after he knew the truth, which he attributes a placebo-like effect on believing he had a great putter.

That said, I simply don't know enough about what MOI means, especially in the context of putting, or how to measure it to have any knowledge about whether the putter did anything.
 
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