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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.
Liberal bias in academia is destroying the integrity of research.
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.
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.
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.
What’s the use of being a liberal if you can’t lie, cheat, and steal?
A new dark ages is upon us.
“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?
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.
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!
Eisenhower’s Farewell Address. . . In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist . . .While he was waxing philosophical about such dangers, it’s a shame Ike didn’t warn us about the unwarranted influence of “associated” journalism. Adam Smith warned us thatThe prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. - Wealth of Nations
It should be obvious - tho it took me many decades as an adult to realize it - that journalists talk to each other incessantly via the mechanism of the Associated Press and other wire services. And that therefore journalists presumptively are engaged in “a conspiracy against the public.“ That conspiracy bribes our politicians with its PR treatment of them.
Of course it is. That was the point.
Given the topic, it seems as if pure money-grubbing corruption could be the key feature of this particular case, rather than "liberal bias."