Posted on 08/10/2023 8:28:16 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Scientific misconduct has enjoyed some limelight lately. The president of Stanford, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, resigned last month after a series of investigations exposed serious problems in his research; an independent review of Tessier-Lavigne’s work found no evidence that he falsified data himself but concluded that his research failed standards “of scientific rigor and process” and that he failed to correct the record on multiple occasions.
And in June it was revealed that a scholar at Harvard Business School, Francesca Gino, was accused of having falsified research about – wait for it – honesty.
Of course, scientific misconduct does not happen only at Stanford and Harvard. Of the nearly 5,500 retractions we catalogued in 2022, and the thousands of cases we have reported on since launching our watchdog website Retraction Watch in 2010, the vast majority involve researchers at institutions without anywhere near Stanford and Harvard’s pedigrees.
The number of retractions each year reflects about a tenth of a percent of the papers published in a given year – in other words, one in 1,000. Yet the figure has grown significantly from about 40 retractions in 2000, far outpacing growth in the annual volume of papers published.
Retractions have risen sharply in recent years for two main reasons: first, sleuthing, largely by volunteers who comb academic literature for anomalies, and, second, major publishers’ (belated) recognition that their business models have made them susceptible to paper mills – scientific chop shops that sell everything from authorships to entire manuscripts to researchers who need to publish lest they perish.
These researchers are required – sometimes in stark terms – to publish papers in order to earn and keep jobs or to be promoted.
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I thought they were coming clean on the Great Climate Swindle.
Old way: Collect evidence, then draw a conclusion from that evidence.
New way: Draw a conclusion, then collect evidence to support that conclusion.
And so science advances…in the wrong direction.
This. Without any question.
“Heck, they all do it — it’s to be expected — at least the COVID research got it right”
Trust the Climate Emergency.
How else are you going to prove your perpetual motion machine works without a little honest cheating? It’s for the greater good.
not likely:
9 Aug: NY Post: Scientist admits the ‘overwhelming consensus’ on the climate change crisis is ‘manufactured’
By John Stossel
“It’s a manufactured consensus,” climate scientist Judith Curry tells me.
She says scientists have an incentive to exaggerate risk to pursue “fame and fortune.”
She knows about that because she once spread alarm about climate change...
https://nypost.com/2023/08/09/climate-scientist-admits-the-overwhelming-consensus-is-manufactured/
Sharri Markson responds to Australian MSM trying to give cover to Fauci. brilliant:
VIDEO: 14m09s: 10 Aug: Sky News Australia: Anthony Fauci’s statements not ‘standing up to scrutiny’
Sky News host Sharri Markson reports.
Dr Anthony Fauci’s statements are once again not “standing up to scrutiny” as the former US chief medical advisor hit back at claims he covered up the origins of the virus to protect his own reputation.
https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/sharri-markson/anthony-faucis-statements-not-standing-up-to-scrutiny/video/b4326209da6c8ecdff41e5cb005d8d85
BBC has also been featuring Fauci and mentioned this week that he would be included in some new program on BBC World Service, “Titans of Science”. can’t find an online reference to it as yet.
Too true. I see it nearly every day and it just baffles me that people take it on faith that so called experts have a clue what they are extolling.
Universities have become, in large measure, clown palaces.
WOW! Not even the Guardian trusts the science anymore.
All science today is Political Science.
bkmk.
Academia has become,
and been for decades,
nothing more than a
Re(Pro)gressive
Secular humanist
Gnostic fraud
Godless satanic cult.
Where critical thinking and true learning goes to be beaten to death.
.
If there is no
Absolute Truth
but only relative ‘ truth’
as ‘ modernist ‘ academia claims
then there is no point to have academia
Academia is a present oxymoron that the ‘ expert’ morons refuse to acknowledge.
What we see in science is the manifestation of the corrupt influence of the US Government. Dems want to throw millions around for Climate Change reports proving them right, there will be plenty of takers.
The fallacy that reducing dietary cholesterol intake will reduce cholesterol in your blood has persisted for decades.
The FDA food pyramid is prescription for obesity.
One could go on for days.
“Trust the science” is really trust the grift.
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