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While a mediocre athlete (such as Gore) often regards the referees as impartial arbiters to be respected, a superior athlete (such as Bradley) will treat them as fallible foes who can be manipulated into rendering favorable decisions.
Both USAT and the LAT have front-page pieces reporting that the NBA has picked two female referees to work the upcoming regular season, a decision believed to be a first for men's top-level professional sports.
"Yes, she said later, she knew she was breaking the rules," concludes Bill Plaschke of the Los Angeles Times . "But because the referees didn't call it, it apparently falls under the heading of gamesmanship.
Part of the problem is that many referees of aDNA papers do not have a background working with aDNA, so are inclined to use the authenticity criteria as a checklist rather than critically evaluating each bit of research on a case-by-case basis.
In physics, where other forms of misconduct are relatively rare, I have seen serious breeches of ethics committed under the cloak of anonymity by referees of journal articles and research proposals.