Response to “Comment on ‘Invalidation of the Intracavity Optogalvanic Method for Radiocarbon Detection’” by Daniel E Murnick

Our results, when taken alongside those of two other research groups, appear to invalidate the early positive results for intracavity optogalvanic spectroscopy (ICOGS) and its detection of radiocarbon. Daniel Murnick, whose lab published those early results, has directed a comment setting out the pe...

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Published in:Radiocarbon 2016-03, Vol.58 (1), p.231-232
Main Author: Carson, Cantwell G
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analytical chemistry
Laboratories
Lasers
Null hypothesis
Optogalvanic spectroscopy
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Summary:Our results, when taken alongside those of two other research groups, appear to invalidate the early positive results for intracavity optogalvanic spectroscopy (ICOGS) and its detection of radiocarbon. Daniel Murnick, whose lab published those early results, has directed a comment setting out the perceived shortcomings of our article and the reasons that the results do not constitute invalidation, as our article claims. Absent support from his own findings or published literature, his various counterclaims regarding our experimental procedure appear to constitute only his considered professional opinion and the largest confounder highlighted by our research is not even mentioned. The preponderance of documented evidence regarding ICOGS clearly supports the null hypothesis and in our opinion, nothing in Murnick’s comment indicates otherwise.
ISSN:0033-8222
1945-5755
DOI:10.1017/RDC.2016.11