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...mathematical error that dams all temperature data...
i think you mean *damns* rather than *dams*...but i would recommend removing the profanity and replacing it with *dooms* or somesuch

profanity is superfluous, unnecessary, and still crude in polite society

in the final para, you have...

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But if the data that has been used to prove this has little or no value...
amaranth rightly noted the agreement error with *data*...here is another

...the data that have (pluaral, rather than has [sing])

you may want to do a *control f* in your word doc to find all uses of data and correct your agreement errors

didn't know we were gonna get real picayune on this, but amaranth is right...we prescriptionists and style-wise guysngals do wince a little at these minor (some would say major :-) faux pas

the newspaper is a little different medium than this board...where we are far more forgiving but no less wincing :-)

i've known profs that would fail a paper submitted with a single agreement error