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Liberal bias in academia is destroying the integrity of research
NYP ^ | October 12, 2014 | Naomi Schaefer Riley

Posted on 10/13/2014 4:48:22 AM PDT by george76

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1 posted on 10/13/2014 4:48:22 AM PDT by george76
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Whaddaya think the correlation is between scientists supportive of climate change baloney and government grants to research climate change?

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2 posted on 10/13/2014 4:55:05 AM PDT by Jacquerie (Article V. If not now, when?)
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“The editors concluded that Chen-Yuan Chen, a researcher in Taiwan, had created a “peer-review and citation ring.””

Based on my own personal experience in NSF-funded, “peer reviewed” research publication, ALL “peer review” is based on “peer-review and citation rings”. Furthermore, I thought the reviews were often shoddy, in that the reviewers often didn’t have the necessary knowledge to do proper review. My impression was that “peer review” was often pro forma and considered a necessary evil, rather than an integral part of assuring research accuracy and integrity.


3 posted on 10/13/2014 4:57:14 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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Liberal bias in academia is destroying the integrity of research.


The words “research” and “liberal” do not belong in the same sentence, paragraph, page, document, study or anything else that even alludes to anything of actual fact.

Conservatives live in the “real world” of provable facts. Liberals live in a “one world order” whereby the truth is whatever they want it to be.

With that in mind, the world of academia is their liberal world and paradise.


4 posted on 10/13/2014 4:58:54 AM PDT by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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I learned during my foray into education policy that footnotes have a genealogy. When I’d read a paper I would actually go find the papers that the footnotes refered to. After a while I could detect something of a daisy chain of references.


5 posted on 10/13/2014 4:59:07 AM PDT by Excellence (Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
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Academia surrendered it’s integrity willingly. Literally “on it’s knees” for the libturd progressive agenda with all the junk science about Tobacco, Climate, guns, etc. Hard to get upset about the Lady whining about being raped after you find out she has been participating in gang bangs daily for years. Somehow my concern for her “virtue” finds itself occupied by a number of other priorities.


6 posted on 10/13/2014 5:03:48 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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What’s the use of being a liberal if you can’t lie, cheat, and steal?


7 posted on 10/13/2014 5:11:24 AM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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A new dark ages is upon us.


8 posted on 10/13/2014 5:12:37 AM PDT by samtheman
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Exactly. With climate change/global warming there is a need for research into how and why and what to do about it. A windfall for “climatologists”. Meteorologists have gone from being the nerdiest guys on the planet to rock stars.


9 posted on 10/13/2014 5:17:59 AM PDT by all the best
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Ward Churchill comes to mind, citing his own “work” as reference.


10 posted on 10/13/2014 5:18:03 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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This is why “concensus” as applied to science is not just meaningless, it is damaging. Science is “settled” based on objective data ... “consensus” introduces bias which is what is happening more and more today and must be crushed whenever encountered. Ignorant people such as politicians like that word “concensus” because it sounds so inclusive and final, and because the general public latches onto it at every opportunity ... but “consensus” has little to do with science.


11 posted on 10/13/2014 5:25:23 AM PDT by glennaro
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“Chen went to great lengths to make up fake e-mail addresses and even assume the names of other scientists to write approvingly of his own research.”

Ward Churchill did the same thing. Birds of a feather, eh?


12 posted on 10/13/2014 5:33:52 AM PDT by Roger Kaputnik
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Excellent work, detecting a daisy chain of self-affirming footnotes. Well done.

This thread title was written more than sixty years ago when a young William F. Buckley Jr. penned “God and Man at Yale” in 1950.

Integrity is less important than the agenda, ever since.


13 posted on 10/13/2014 5:35:48 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("I am now a radicalized infidel.")
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Among other things, Ward was found guilty of passing off others’ work as his own ( plagiarism ), but also of passing off his own work as others’.


14 posted on 10/13/2014 5:41:36 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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15 posted on 10/13/2014 5:43:00 AM PDT by deoetdoctrinae (Gun-free zones are playgrounds for felons.)
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That is exactly what some researchers claimed U.N climate papers did.


16 posted on 10/13/2014 5:59:23 AM PDT by DeWalt (Times are more like they used to be than they are today.)
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As soon as I heard many scientists claiming “settled science” in the political realms of global warming and evolution with no objections from real scientists who know better, I knew liberals had taken over the clown car. Once science is “settled” it is no longer science because it is placed above questioning and progress.

Moral relativity does not leave room for truth and honor. We are practicing soviet science.


17 posted on 10/13/2014 7:03:47 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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LIBs are anti-science. Objectivity repulses them. Many LIBs in academia pervert scientific method through dishonest, agenda-driven “research”. ...and to think taxpayers pay the inflated salaries of these intellectual criminals.


18 posted on 10/13/2014 8:24:13 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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Academia seems to have taken a page from Mrs. Slocombe, as they typically state a position and then declare the discussion over by screaming, “...I am unanimous in that!”

Basically, it is the same thing that Liberal racists do when they scream, “You’re a racist!” and then claim victory!


19 posted on 10/13/2014 8:45:22 AM PDT by ExTxMarine (PRAYER: It's the only HOPE for real CHANGE in America!)
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I see nothing wrong with criminalizing those who fake science - especially medical research.


20 posted on 10/13/2014 8:57:05 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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